Wildlife Resources Management Act, 2023 🇬🇭

Ghana

Republic of Ghana

The one thousand, one hundred and fifteenth

Act

of the parliament of the republic of ghana

entitled

Wildlife Resources Management Act, 2023

Published by Government Gazette on 1 March 2024
Assented to on 1 March 2024
Commenced on 1 March 2024

AN ACT to consolidate and revise the laws relating to wildlife and protected areas, provide for the implementation of international conventions on wildlife to which Ghana is a signatory and for related matters.

Wildlife - Ownership, Implementation, Objects and Functions

1. Ownership of wildlife and wildlife products

(1)A wildlife resource, a wildlife product and an associated genetic resource in Ghana are vested in the President on behalf of the people of Ghana.

(2)Subsection (1) does not affect the right of a

(a)person who is acting in accordance with the terms of a licence or permit granted under subsection (6) of section 23 to that person to acquire a wildlife, a wildlife product or an associated genetic resource of wildlife, or to acquire…

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