Wednesday, April 22, 2009


Karkoum national park canopy walk was super cool. Karkoum is the biggest rainforest preserve in Ghana, and unfortunately one of the few. Most forests in Ghana have been logged and over hunted. As a result you don't see a lot of wildlife around in general (except for lizards, ants, bats, spiders, scorpions - yay!) In the bush around where we live there are still many hunters who go into the bush with their bows and arrows, sling shots, clubs and kill monkeys, antelope, etc. As a result you dont really see monkeys or cool animals unless you go deep into the bush and are good at tracking animals - sad. Karkoum has a healthy population of cool animals (monkeys, forest elephants, antelope, etc) but unfortunately we did not see them.

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