THE STANDARD By
XN Iraki |
February 14th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Children at Loreto Convent School, Msongari. [XN Iraki]
Economic growth is largely driven by disciplined national thinkers. They come up with new ideas and follow them through, creating new enterprises and expanding the existing ones.
The ordinary but disciplined workers take over, working every day, successfully completing tasks and going beyond the call of duty.
While we love complaining about joblessness, rarely do we blame the low productivity resulting from indiscipline. Think loudly, we want higher salaries but attempts to link such salaries with productivity, which is built on discipline, are resisted.
zebra and Rufous Fishing-owl
Scotopella ussheri (both Vulnerable) are found in Gola Forest. Furthermore, the forest is home to the world’s second largest population of the Western chimpanzees, as well as acting as an overall carbon sink and helping to reduce the impacts of climate change.
Years of deforestation and degradation, driven by logging, agriculture, armed conflict and mining, have led to the loss of globally important biodiversity and decreased resilience to climate change. This has significantly impacted local communities, who depend on the forest for their livelihoods. In 2011, the governments of Liberia and Sierra Leone signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the management, research, protection and conservation of the Gola Forest. In February 2020, an amended MoU was signed by both countries, reaffirming commitment to jointly manage the forest and protect its biodiversity.