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Some of the illegal logs Anderson harvested in Weimu, Gbarpolu County. The DayLight/Gabriel DixonWEIMU, Gbarpolu County –  Isaac Richmond Anderson, Jr. had just come back to Liberia after serving as First Secretary at the Liberian Cons

In an interview with ERR, Minister of the Environment Madis Kallas (SDE) discussed how logging further away from people's routes could help resolve the dispute surrounding logging. He also believes that the building exclusion zone on Estonia's islands could be reduced, and that pollution abatement needs work as well.

Small, lively and threatened, the golden lion tamarin is a species found only in the Atlantic Rainforest and who today fights for space and connection inside the nation’s most deforested and fragmented biome. There are four species in Brazil, but the golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia) was the first to be described and has enjoyed the most fame.

Clutching a single-barrelled rifle in lush northern Liberia, Emmanuel says his 10 children were able to get an education thanks to his gun.

The small wiry man, whose full name AFP is withholding, ignores a ban on hunting bushmeat and earns most of his cash catching pangolins or monkeys in the surrounding jungle.

In Liberia, the pangolin has long been hunted for its meat and prized for its scales, which traffickers export to Asia. While the endangered small mammal has been protected by law, preventing its poaching remains a major challenge

Clutching a single-barrelled rifle in lush northern Liberia, Emmanuel says his 10 children were able to get an education thanks to his gun.

Angola to reap 72 million USD in timber sales in 2021-

The Secretariat of the Liberia Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative has concluded a two day orientation for members of the Multi-stakeholder Steering Group (MSG).The learning exercise specifically provided an opportunity for new members who we

On Feb. 15 this year, the day after Valentine’s, a two-toed sloth was checked into the government-run wildlife screening center in Manaus, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, for some much-needed TLC. The sloth, which staff had named Rainha, Portuguese for “Queen,” had previously climbed up an electricity pole and been zapped and fallen, fracturing […]