Since 2000, some 22% of the West African nation’s tree cover has been lost to deforestation, largely due to pressure from logging and small farms.
An independent investigation into logging in the Liberian rainforest found illegal operations “on a significant scale,” with multiple missteps or breaches of law by the government agency charged with protecting those forests, according to a copy of the report obtained by The Associated Press.
The report was completed in 2020 but has never been made public despite activists’ calls to publish its findings, which included a recommendation that today!
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