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Background Why is it important? Who is involved? What are the issues? When and Where? What next?          BACKGROUND For Millennia, mountains have served as vast reserves for valuable resources such as water, food, timber, minerals, etc as well as key centres of culture and recreation. Today, however the rapid pace of globalization, urbanisation and mass tourism are threatening mountain communities and the resources they depend on. Worldwide, mountain areas face increasing

marginalisation, economic decline and environmental degradation. The United Nations, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, proclaimed 2002 as International Year of Mountains (IYM) to increase international awareness of the global importance of mountain ecosystems. It assigned the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) the role of lead agency in collaboration with government, NGOs and other UN organisations. In Ghana, the Ghana Wildlife Society is the collaborative organisation.

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