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By Ashoka Mukpo Mongabay’s investigation into deforestation in Liberia started with a tip from a source last year. “There’s deforestation, and a migrant rights issue,” they said. Areas along the ...
News Liberia » Grand Gedeh » Trade: A cacao rush drives ‘alarming’ deforestation in Liberia
Satellite data and reports from the ground show how a rapid expansion of smallholder cacao farming in southeastern Liberia is causing “alarming” deforestation. Large numbers of migrant workers from ...
News Liberia » Grand Gedeh » Trade: Cacao rush fuels conflict and deforestation in southeastern Liberia
Soaring cacao prices over the last three years are fueling deforestation and conflict in Grand Gedeh county of Liberia, in West Africa, Mongabay staff writer Ashoka Mukpo reported. Satellite imagery ...
News Liberia » Grand Gedeh » Trade: The vanishing forests on Liberia’s cocoa frontier
Off in the woods beyond the ekki trees, a sharp crack cuts through the buzzing of insects. “It’s a tree falling,” says George Bowey, a baby-faced community eco-guard who works here in the proposed Kwa ...