Tufuhene John Nda-Nwea of Adusuaso, a fishing and farming community in the Jomoro district of the Western Region, has called for responsible management of the nation’s natural resources, to enable posterity to benefit from it.

He noted that the fast rate at which the environment was being devastated through irresponsible activities was worrying, and called for a stop to this unpatriotic behaviour before the situation got out of hand, else posterity would forever blame the present generation.

Tufuhene Nda-Nwea, therefore, called for stringent measures to arrest the menace, else it would present a wrong impression about the country to the outside world, and this would impact negatively on the nation's economy.

He made the call a durbar organized by the Coastal Sustainable Landscape Project (CSLP), a non-governmental organization (NGO) which has focus on forest preservation, funded by the USAID and implemented by the US Forest Reserve International Programme, at Adusuaso to mark World Environment Day.

It was held on the theme: “Furure Generation Also Need The Environment.” The Tufuhene said our ancestors bequeathed a healthy environmental legacy on the succeeding generation, yet man’s irresponsible activities, like illegal mining commonly known as galamsey, had polluted the river bodies, while the environment was degraded and forest depleted with impunity.

Back home, he called for the rehabilitation of roads in their town, to facilitate the transportation of goods and services, as well as the provision of Information Communication Technology (ICT) Centre, for the Junior Secondary School to enhance teaching and learning.

Mr Emmanuel Ntiri, Deputy Director of the CSLP, said the organization had selected six coastal districts, namely Jomoro, Ellembelle, Nzema East, Ahanta West, Shama and Sekondi-Takoradi, for their pilot project.

He said communities in these districts were being supported in the form of capacity building in modern technology in farming to increase production, in addition to financial assistance, among other gestures.

Mr Ntiri called for best environmental practices, noting that current unfortunate situations should be a wakeup call for all and sundry to show seriousness in preserving our immediate environment and beyond.

Mr Anthony Ackah-Blay, Jomoro District Director of Education, called for a halt to bad practices like indiscriminate littering, illegal sand winning, and the felling of trees, and rather plant more trees and nurture them.

Earlier, the students, town folks and staff of the CSLP, went on a procession through the main street, holding placards expressing their concern about environmental degradation.