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Annihilation by deforestation; how the pursuit of short term "gain" will be the death of a country : Sierra Leone Concord Times


February 5, 2021
By Sonkita Conteh, Director, Namati Sierra Leone
2019 was a terrible year for Sierra Leone’s forests. According to the 2020 annual pubic finance audit report, more than 10 million slow-growing, rosewood trees were shipped out of the country.  Approximately two hundred thousand acres of forest cover was destroyed in the process. These irreplaceable resources, the report showed, were exchanged for a meagre US$ 25 million in revenue for the government- less than US $ 2.50 per tree.
Had it not been for the Covid-19 epidemic, the rate of plunder in 2020 would have equalled or surpassed this magnitude. How the current government continues to see the destruction of the nation’s last remaining ancient forests as a source of revenue continues to beggar belief. ....

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