Liberia: Sinoe Community Conserving Its Forest but Gets No Support

Jan 15, 2019 | James Harding Giahyue, FrontPage Africa
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When Nitrian obtained a community forest status in 2011—one of the first to do following a new law seeking to give communities their shares of forest benefits—it fend off logging companies and any interest from Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL) oil palm plantation just five kilometers away. It wanted to conserve the forest for the next generation.