Each year, 384,000 metric tons of wild animal meat are sold every year in Ghana's major market producing some $350 million dollars in revenue. This is the bushmeat trade, one of the most alarming threats to the survival of wildlife in West Africa and the main cause for the "empty forest syndrome."

Ghanaian forests are part of the Upper Guinean Hotspot, one of the 25 most biologically rich and endangered ecosystems in the world. In Ghana alone, there are 59 endangered mammal species, many of which continue to be offered in the market for bushmeat consumption.

This short documentary is a call for awareness to revert this threat. Filmed in different regions of the country, the video reflects the rich variety of Ghana's fauna and flora. It also presents a number of testimonies encouraging a change in human behavior to save Ghana's remaining forests and wildlife before it is too late. "What we have come to realize is that the forest is gone, the secondary forest is also gone, the grassland is catching up on us and if our attention is not focused on the environment, sooner than later, the desert we are crying against, will be with us," declared Kwame Ampofu Twumasi, Chief Executive of the district of Nkoranza.

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