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Deforestation and it's environmental impact (LIB) Position1 #12072 Liberia hosts the only remaining blocks of closed canopy tropical rain forest within the Guinea forest; now down to 12% of its original size of 727,900 km sq. Liberia has 44% of the remaning forest area which is important to the subregion' environment heath but is under threat of depletion.

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Author: Mongabay.com
Publication info: N/A
Cited by: Earl Burrowes, Sr. 3:38 AM 13 February 2009 GMT
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http://rainforests.mongabay.com/deforestation/2000/Liberia.htm

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Change in Forest Cover: Between 1990 and 2000, Liberia lost an average of 60,300 hectares of forest per year. The amounts to an average annual deforestation rate of 1.49%. Between 2000 and 2005, the rate of forest change increased by 17.3% to 1.74% per annum. In total, between 1990 and 2005, Liberia lost 22.3% of its forest cover, or around 904,000 hectares. Measuring the total rate of habitat conversion (defined as change in forest area plus change in woodland area minus net plantation expansion) for the 1990-2005 interval, Liberia lost 22.3% of its forest and woodland habitat.

Link[2] Liberia is at a Brink of Irreversible Environmental/Ecological Impotency

Author: Syrulwa Somah, Ph.D
Publication info: December 28, 2004
Cited by: Earl Burrowes, Sr. 3:41 AM 13 February 2009 GMT
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http://www.theperspective.org/2004/dec/environment.html

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The 4th republic must be a dawning of a day for Integrated National Environment Management for Liberia that must be legislatively enacted and constitutionally approved by the government. A policy of implementation must be initiated, which will address urgent administrative issues, the development of an Integrated Environment Management and legislative measures. The following administrative actions must be heeded to as a matter of urgency

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