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How Rangers and Local Communities Came Together to Protect Sapo National Park
Oct 22, 2019Grants, poaching, Reducing Deforestation adn FOrest Degradation
Sapo National Park is Liberia’s largest and oldest national park, stretching over 180,000 hectares and is part of the Tai-Grebo-Krahn-Sapo (TGKS) Transboundary Forest Landscape between Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire. Sapo’s magnificence as a biologically rich and diverse forest and a refuge for several endangered plants and animals are being undermined, however, by illegal mining, hunting…
Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia Form New Law Enforcement Committee to Protect the Transboundary Tai-Grebo-Krahn-Sapo Forest
Dec 04, 2018Biodiversity Loss, Conservation, Deforestation, Degradation, ECOWAS, Grants, West Africa
Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia are making headway in their steadfast commitment to protecting the unparalleled biodiversity of the Tai-Grebo-Krahn-Sapo (TGS) Forest and related Protected Areas, which straddle the border between the two countries. A first for both countries, the Transboundary Law Enforcement Committee was established to support effective management of the forest landscape and is…