The management of the Wallings Nature Reserve is at loggerheads with the government over the permanent use of the forestry area. The Wallings Nature Reserve Incorporated had a temporary arrangement with the Ministry of Agriculture but Executive Director of the company Refica Attwood said they have been working for quite some time to finalise the lease agreement. Executive Director of Wallings Nature Reserve. The concept was used to transform the historic Wallings Reservoir area into the country's first ever community-led national park that has received a favourable response from locals and international agencies. But Attwood prefers to take her business elsewhere saying that the Wallings Nature Reserve was only the first of other major projects to come.

Source: Ethiopian News September 03, 2022 14:51 UTC