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By Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda APAMPRAMA, Ghana Since 2017, the Ghanaian government has aggressively pursued small-scale miners operating in forest reserves across the country, blaming them for the destruction of the countrys forests. But at the same time the government is promoting industrial-scale gold extraction by granting a flurry of mining licenses, many of them overlapping with those same forest reserves. Environmental campaigners are chronicling the toll of both legal and illegal mineral extraction on the countrys woodlands. What theyve found in the Apamprama reserve, which covers