Morris Suah News Today

MONROVIA -- The idea of the 2009 Community Rights Law (CRL) was to give communities the right to control, protect, and manage their forests along with its resources. But the lack of their own finance, and being unaware of the possibility to manage th

rd Judicial Circuit, in Sinoe County. On June 25, 2017, Mandra Forestry Liberia Limited — a corporation involved in logging activities, signed a Third-Party Forest Management Contract with the Sewacajua Community to harvest logs in an area covering 31,336 hectares of forestland.  The contract duration is for 15 years, and subject to periodic review after every five years. Since the signing of the contract, community members through their leadership have consistently complained of the loggi...