Country	Ghana
Name of scheme	Ghana Wildlife Division’s vertebrate monitoring program
Biome (terrestrial; freshwater; marine)	Terrestrial
What is monitored	Human resource use and wildlife
Who compiles data	Government rangers
Number of community members involved	0
Spatial scale. Size of area monitored	516,500 ha divided on two areas (2003)
Methods used	Methods include, e.g., patrol records
Year of initiation	Late 1960s
Funded by	Government of Ghana
Documents or publications available	Brashares et al 2001, Brashares 2003, Brashares and Arcese 2002, Brashares and Sam 2005, Danielsen et al. in press
Organizers and contact details	Ghana Wildlife Division Justin S. Brashares, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA;. E--mail: brashares@nature.berkeley.edu
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