Sanctuary Guides
35 min · Tafi Atome
Group of 12 visitors arriving at Hohoe junction need a tro-tro to the sanctuary gate this morning.
Transport needed4 responses
Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary
Ðekawɔwɔ is not affiliated with the Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary. This is a demonstration of how the platform could serve this community. Future partnership is hoped for.
A glimpse of how the sanctuary community would use Ðekawɔwɔ for eco-tourism asks and gives.
The Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary Mission
The Tafi Atome Monkey Sanctuary is a community-managed wildlife reserve in the Volta Region protecting a troop of mona monkeys (Cercopithecus mona) in one of the last remaining forest fragments in the area. Local guides lead daily walks through the sanctuary. The community earns income from eco-tourism. Buffer woodland expansion — extending the forest edge into neighboring farms — is the primary conservation challenge. Ðekawɔwɔ would help the sanctuary community coordinate: visitor transport, buffer woodland supplies, wildlife sighting reports, and mutual aid between the guides and neighboring farmers navigating the forest edge.
How this community would use Ðekawɔwɔ
A guide photographs a mona monkey straying into a neighbouring farm and shares it to map human–wildlife conflict. Within the hour, neighbours coordinate transport for arriving visitors and offer seedlings to extend the buffer woodland — the kind of everyday mutual aid Ðekawɔwɔ connects.
Sample data — nothing here is live
Timely
Mawunyo K.
3 h · Tafi Atome
I run daily trips between Hohoe and Tafi Atome — happy to carry visitors or supplies for the sanctuary.
Transport available7 responses
Community Eco Fund
1 d · Tafi Atome
Looking for shade-cloth and seedlings to extend the buffer woodland the mona monkeys forage in.
Supplies needed2 responses