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Grants, poaching, Reducing Deforestation adn FOrest Degradation
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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…
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Biodiversity, Biodiversity Loss, chimpanzee, Conservation, elephant, endangered species, FFI, Forest, hunting, Liberia, pangolin, poaching, Trafficking, WCF, West Africa, Wildlife Conservation
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Our Biodiversity, Our Future: Liberia Marks World Biodiversity Day 2019 to Draw Attention to the Threat of Illegal Wildlife Trade
May 22, 2019Biodiversity, Biodiversity Loss, chimpanzee, Conservation, elephant, endangered species, FFI, Forest, hunting, Liberia, pangolin, poaching, Trafficking, WCF, West Africa, Wildlife Conservation
Liberia is on track to losing significant populations of its wildlife and stands a risk of having some of its critically endangered species being completely wiped out in ten years if no action is taken. Mama Liberia is blessed with the largest remaining portion (42%) of the Upper Guinea rainforest; a forest that runs through…