Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation
BBC News -- Africa
23 September 2014
Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation
By Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent, BBC News
Liberia is to become the first nation in Africa to completely stop cutting down its trees in return for development aid.
Norway will pay the impoverished west African country $150m to stop deforestation by 2020...
...Liberia's forests are not as big as other countries but the country is home to a significant part of West Africa's remaining rainforest, with about 43% of the Upper Guinean forest.
It is also a global diversity hotspot, home to the last remaining viable populations of species including Western Chimpanzees, forest elephants and leopards....
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