✓ Fronts
for wetland conservation at all fronts
✓Boost
community Efforts and initiatives mobilized towards annual Cleaning and conservation
campaign of the village
✓Spoil
Bambui Women on the occasion with Goodies
✓Set up a Community volunteers network of women to generally oversee the day to day security of the water Reserve areas
This
was on the occasion of the annual village come together in mobilization to clean
sacred grounds, forests and water Reserves. As it is established, on such a day
programmed in the village calendar, women and men of a particular age group
from each household, show up for the general clean up campaign and exercise.
The
scene or venue we are talking of here is “Atunui” mega water source and “Nsah Fewouh”,
all forest reserves and conserved areas which dates decades under Bambui myth and
mythology.
History
have it on good notes that these two great water sources has for years sustained
steady water flow and supply in and around the community. Adding to that, the
sacred nature of the area enriches the cultural heritage of the people.
Coming
back to the ceremony proper, what ensued around the early hours of 9:00 am on Thursday
the 9th of February 2023 was that men and women in their numbers
gathered at the Atunui water shed, weeding, cleaning and clearing the
environment. Ritual rites to adorn the gods followed, ending with the sharing
of salt, soap and Omo by the Executive Director of WORLD ECHOES MEDIA GROUP as
a source of motivation and encouragement.
Bambui
rural women, from thence, took community based approach commitment as the most viable
option to restore wetland conservation and ecotourism. Which according to them,
should serve as a model worth emulating for
replication in other community water situations faced with similar challenges. Clearing
the path ways of water and weeding the wetlands around catchment airs the environment
and that alone gives the water reserve a good breeding space while enriching its
biodiversity content.
Here
communal and collective spirit was also harmonized by indigenes to the teeth,
to reach out to a common goal and wish.
An initiative
officials in the area saluted greatly, doffing their hats for this year’s exceptional
planning.
What
must be noted in addition is that this joint venture initiative to add additional
push to wetlands restoration in Bambui forms part of the five years strategic media
development reporting and action plan World Echoes MEDIA GROUP adopted last UN
World Wetland Day to accompany some if not all community initiatives that has
to do with wetland conservation and restoration in the Region.
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