HC Deb 28 June 1951 vol 489 c163W
Mr. Peter Smithers

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what progress has been made in preparing and applying a policy of forest reservation in the Gambia.

Mr. J. Griffiths:

A comprehensive forestry programme was approved in 1950 by the Government of the Gambia and is now being implemented with financial assistance from colonial development and welfare funds. It provides for the establishment of protection reserves for the maintenance of soil fertility, of production reserves to meet the timber requirements of the territory and for the training of the African staff needed to manage these reserves.