ACDI/VOCA FIFES Activity to Assist Local Stakeholders Protect Liberian Rainforests Ends, but Critical Activities Continue
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 Environme...
Source: liberianobserver.com