Boabeng Fiema Monkey Sanctuary (Brong-Ahafo region)
Boabeng-Fiema is one of the destinations in Ghana, and top most visited tourist attraction site in the Nkoranza North District, a district in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana.
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It is popularly known as the Boabeng-Fiema monkey sanctuary. It is a home for about 700 monkeys. The village is a community where, monkeys and human beings live together.
The inhabitants in the village always, leave food outside their homes for the animals. The monkeys see human beings as their own. |
Boabeng Fiema is home to more than 500 Campbell's Mona and 200 Geoffrey’s Pied Columbus Monkeys Monkeys at the Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary situated at Brong-Ahafo Region. These monkeys are so free that they live with the people as one people.
Boabeng (BA) - About 500 Mona and 200 black and white monkeys inhabit the Boabeng-Fiema monkey sanctuary in Nkoranza District of Brong-Ahafo, a research conducted by Canadian students has revealed.
The Canadian students visited the twin communities last year to conduct a research into the origin of the sanctuary. Mr Anthony Dasah, Wildlife Division Officer and Supervisor of the sanctuary announced this when Mr James Kwabena Appiah-Awuah, Nkoranza District Chief Executive toured the sanctuary.
He said eight communities formed the canopy of the sanctuary, namely Boabeng, Fiema, Akrudwa number one, Akrudwa number two, Busunya, Konkrompe, Senya and Yefri. Mr Appiah-Awuah said the assembly would support the development and growth of the sanctuary to attract more tourists to the area. He warned that encroachers and poachers in the sanctuary would be arrested and prosecuted.
Mr Appiah-Awuah said Nkoranza-Boabeng-Fiema road would be rehabilitated to facilitate movement of tourists and residents. Nana Amoa Awua Ampong, Fetish priest of Daworo shrine at Boabeng disclosed that the animals were the offspring of two shrines, Daworo of Boabeng and Akudwo of Fiema. He said a cemetery had been created inside the sanctuary for the burial of the sacred animals an age-old tradition. Source: GNA |
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