gambia: Our Life Depends On Biodiversity - Let's Protect It

In 1997, The Gambia carried out a biodiversity country study to gather and analyse biological and socio-economic data as the basis for preparing its national strategy and action-plan. A national task force was formed comprising representatives from the relevant government institutions and NGOs, was established to provide both policy and technical guidance to a team of national consultants contracted from relevant institutions to handle specific sectoral and sub-sectoral issues covered in the study. According to the research and development officer at the Department of Parks and Wildlife Management (DPWM), Famara Drammeh, biological resources are vital to humanity's economic and social development, and as a result, there is a growing recognition that biological diversity is a global asset of tremendous value to present and future generations.