Liberia: Disappointed in Logging, Communities Look to Conservation

Nov 25, 2024 | James Harding Giahyue, The DayLight
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It has been some 15 years since logging was reintroduced in community forests following the end of over a decade of Liberia’s bloody civil wars. Though postwar forestry guarantees communities’ benefits, locals have gained little from dozens of logging contracts countrywide, covering 2.3 million hectares.