What is it about?
The study investigated how the cultural traditions such as taboo systems, totemic systems, proverbs, folklores, myths, cosmological belief systems and traditional festivals have aided in the conservation of the rich diversities of the aquatic biodiversity in the Lake Bosomtwe. However, the implementation of the cultural traditions are now in a relaxed state resulting in the engagement in unhealthy environmental practices. Thus, the research seeks to investigate the human impacts on the aquatic biodiversity in the Bosomtwe Lake and how a return and strengthening of the cultural traditions would help arrest the negative human environmental practices in and around the Lake region.
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Why is it important?
It is the only study done in the Bosomtwe Lake that accesses the strengths of the cultural traditions as a traditional strategy to be used in complementing the scientific conservation strategy used in the Abono community. It shows the astronomical worth of traditional ecological knowledge systems in the conservation of aquatic biodiversity in this modern age in local communities where cultural traditions exert high impact.
Perspectives
The paper is a wonderful initiative to answer the demands of the Forestry Department in Ghana in synergizing the great wealth of conservation ethos in the traditional knowledge systems in ensuring the conservation of aquatic biodiversity in the Lake Bosomtwe. This is a model that other global communities with strong cultural influences can adopt to complement the scientific models in conservation of not only aquatic biodiversity and terrestrial biodiversity.
Dr Dickson Adom
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
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This page is a summary of: The human impact and the aquatic biodiversity of lake Bosomtwe: rennaisance of the cultural traditions of Abono (Ghana)?, Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research, January 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/trser-2018-0007.
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