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Hope for Liberia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Jacques Verschuren
Jacques Verschuren
Affiliation:
Dr J. Verschuren, lnstitut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 31 rue Vautier, 1040 Bruxelles.
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Abstract

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Until recently Liberia has lagged far behind the rest of Africa in conservation, with no national parks, no hunting regulations, and widespread forest destruction. But the creation in 1976 of a Forest Development Authority with a dynamic staff offers real hope for the future. The author, widely known for his conservation work, especially in Zaire, spent four months on a WWF/IUCN survey in 1978–79; he describes what he found and the proposals he made to the Liberian authorities.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 16 , Issue 5 , October 1982 , pp. 421 - 427
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1982

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