Buipewura Jinapor bans hunting in Gonjaland

According to Buipewura, the activities of hunters are affecting Gonjaland, therefore, has placed a permanent ban on hunting.

Many residents of communities in Gonjaland have complained about the age-long group hunting which has become rampant in recent years.

Many farmlands are burnt by the hunters who come in groups in articulator trucks every weekend.

Buipewura explained that some of these hunters go to the extent of stealing farm produce during the process of hunting. The numbers of these hunters are so great that every animal they come across is killed, including “sacred” animals that have spiritual effects on Gonjaland. Animals that are spared by the people of Gonjaland during certain periods are almost extinct now because the group hunters have killed them all.

Several acres of mango plantations, cashew plantations including other farm produce have been set ablaze in the course of hunting for wild animals. Rampa farms, who are into mango and cashew plantation in Langantere in the West Gonja  District has over the years experienced periodic burning by this hunters. Many other farms in different parts of Gonjaland equally get burnt during the process of hunting by this group hunters.

Also, communities, where these activities of group hunting take place, have their domestic animals killed and taken away.

Buipewura Jinapor II is, therefore, calling on especially those involved in group hunting to immediately put a stop that practice or have themselves to blame.