Liberia: Solway Mining Site Still Besieged by 'Country Devils' liberianobserver.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from liberianobserver.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
NIMBA COUNTY, Liberia In 2020, villagers from the Blei and Sehyi Kodoo districts agreed to allow Solway Mining Incorporated to explore for iron-ore deposits in their territory in the Nimba mountain range in northern Liberia. Under pressure, these communities overrode their decade-old conservation management plan and agreed to allow Solway access to community-managed forests […]
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By Glenn Lines, Chief of Party of the Forest Incomes for Environmental Sustainability (FIFES) Activity
Liberia holds the last large blocks of rainforests remaining in West Africa. Despite being home to two-thirds of those remaining blocks, Liberia and its communities who depend on rainforests to survive face the urgent threats of climate change, deforestation, and rural poverty.
Previous global development programs implemented by ACDI/VOCA and other organizations first established community forestry in Liberia. Since then, the five-and-a-half-year, US$16.8-million Forest Incomes for Environmental Sustainability (FIFES) Activity, funded by the United States Agency for International Development and implemented by ACDI/VOCA, has built on efforts to protect forests and expand the livelihoods of forest-dependent communities.