History of Mole National Park shared by Mr Issah Isaka, a wildlife officer and tour guide.
A @BarcampGhana visit to Mole National Park during @BarcampTamale weekend.
Courtesy: @attigs & @fiifibaidoo
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1958 just a year after Ghana had Independence Yeah by our first president before that they were killing the animals taking their blood samples to uh eradicate the tly within this area so that people settle or people stay so when the our first we had the independence and our first president
Came because he has traveled widely you turn left please and right because he has traveled widely he has seen how other countries are benefiting from the wildlife why should we have wild life and start killing them from there he stopped The Killing and then in 1950
He made it a game reserve but then there were some other communities inside the area those communities were resettled outside the park boundary in 1964 there the size was increased up to 4,577 square km that’s the area of the park 4,577 km it became a national park in
1971 up to dat this is how it started and then the name Molly it was named after the two slave Raiders who were within this area causing that sort of uh Problem by uh catching the I mean who were the slave Raiders that was Su and Babu okay you know white
Man to the local pronation becomes difficult to him so the W sumary he made you see the he made it they just shortened it more Mo okay so that’s how the word moly came I mean the P moly came by his name yeah and then after that time about
94 different species of M was recorded in yeah and then BS uh over 300 different species of BS to was recorded you know this time bed Watchers organize themselves from the Western countries and fly straight to come watch best in Ghana yeah so this how it
Started and then with our driving uh uh safari animals that we are luckily to see we are we can see at this antilop the antelop we have the cob k o we have the water B then we have the Bush B those are the different um yeah they
Are all an but with their family names okay the CB the Bush B the water B yeah then we have three types of monkeys in the park as well that is the baboon slow down we have the baboon we have the vivet monkey or the green monkey we have
The P monkey or the red monkey these are the three types we have In we have the lion the the high to as well yeah but this time the the lion is difficult to I mean it’s very rare to see them they not very extinct yeah even the last time we saw in the park was in the year
Two last two years last why is that why are they become extinct H it’s like the the way we used to see them we don’t see them like that maybe through poaching so people are hunting them it’s one of our major problems in the par okay chill chill
Chill um but why are they hunting lions are they are they like delicious meat or something well the lion is like the local people that’s they use every part of the lion for their local belief okay yes some say if you use the bone you can to buff a CH he become
Strong the you shout nobody challenges so many say no so there’s no part some use the skin so many ways the eyes to see beautiful girls everything every part of it can get into the par it’s not fence so they get to enter and start shooting
At the animals so at least every and we also do effect arrest arrest some of the coaches at least every minutes yeah so this is just a short history of short brief about if anyone has any question welcome SL down SL down yeah these are the C the k o
All so what what what are the different what are the differences between the three um species well the difference if as we are going along if I see any other different one The Bu is different it has some white stripes or spots on the head at the at
The on the at the at the body there have some white sports or Stripes mhm yeah the bush that’s what they called the wani and it is the antelope the W people use as their whatsoever which they call Deer festival deer FAL it is called the antelope is because they don’t know the
Actual name they call it deer some say Antelope even the antelope seems better than the deer it’s like we don’t have we don’t even have the deer in Africa oh really okay so it is the bush book and then the water B is much much bigger
Than the two of them what is it called a water Bo water B and it’s dark in uh it’s dark in complexion dark this ones are bright light yellow or red do you have SN here we have snakes snakes like the python ni the pa the cobras you have
Cobas the striped the lion striped ones how is that one yeah and then we have the the the nin other short and very poisonous yes so can we see the python no Ali CH the python is not chill chill chill chill chill chill this should be the Bush
B you don’t get Stripes where is it behind this three you see can I get down yeah oh that’s a good sh looking at us right here can you see it oh no it’s one of the