Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County – A high-level media delegation is visiting Grand Gedeh County to probe into the rising wave of advanced social, financial, and environmental points associated to elevated migration and forest exploitation in that a part of the nation.
By Emmanuel Weedee-Conway
The go to, organized by a consortium of nationwide journalists and civil society representatives, is geared toward digging deeper into mounting reviews of deforestation, unlawful land offers, and potential human rights violations in components of the county bordering Côte d’Ivoire.
Based on the Liberia Forest Media Watch (LFMW) – organizers of the journey, the media mission seeks to grasp the a number of dimensions driving latest migration into forested communities and their implications for conservation and native livelihoods.
Among the many key focus areas are deforestation, political manipulation in land and forest transactions, and rising authorities and personal sector involvement within the cocoa commerce.
Rising reviews counsel that hundreds of acres of forestland in Grand Gedeh, a few of which fall inside or close to the Krahn-Grebo Nationwide Park, are being cleared for cocoa farming, elevating alarm amongst conservationists concerning the long-term environmental affect.
The journalists are anticipated to analyze allegations of land grabs for the only real function of cocoa cultivation, in addition to rising demand to promote or buy cocoa utilizing the Ivorian forex, the CFA franc, which might undermine Liberia’s financial sovereignty and have an effect on native commerce regulation.
There had all the time been reported tensions between communities and households over forest possession, in addition to claims of kid labor and human trafficking related to cocoa manufacturing.
Including to the controversy is the controversial lease settlement of a 500-acre forest, one thing which native residents say was performed with out their full consent or satisfactory session.
Stakeholders, together with conventional leaders, native authorities, and representatives of the Forestry Growth Authority (FDA), shall be interviewed through the go to.
LFMW says the findings are anticipated to tell nationwide coverage discussions and draw consideration to what some analysts describe as a “silent disaster” threatening each neighborhood stability and biodiversity conservation in southeastern Liberia.
The initiative can also be being welcomed by environmental teams and rights advocates, who imagine that reviews arising from this go to might make clear the advanced interaction of migration, useful resource management, and political affect on the nation’s forest in opposition to neighborhood rights to possession.
Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County – A high-level media delegation is visiting Grand Gedeh County to probe into the rising wave of advanced social, financial, and environmental points associated to elevated migration and forest exploitation in that a part of the nation.
The go to, organized by a consortium of nationwide journalists and civil society representatives, was geared toward digging deeper into mounting reviews of deforestation, unlawful land offers, and potential human rights violations in components of the county bordering Côte d’Ivoire.
Based on the Liberia Forest Media Watch (LFMW) – organizers of the journey, the media mission seeks to grasp the a number of dimensions driving latest migration into forested communities and their implications for conservation and native livelihoods.
Among the many key focus areas are deforestation, political manipulation in land and forest transactions, and rising authorities and personal sector involvement within the cocoa commerce.
Rising reviews counsel that hundreds of acres of forestland in Grand Gedeh, a few of which fall inside or close to the Krahn-Grebo Nationwide Park, are being cleared for cocoa farming, elevating alarm amongst conservationists concerning the long-term environmental affect.
The journalists are anticipated to analyze allegations of land grabs for the only real function of cocoa cultivation, in addition to rising demand to promote or buy cocoa utilizing the Ivorian forex, the CFA franc, which might undermine Liberia’s financial sovereignty and have an effect on native commerce regulation.
There had all the time been reported tensions between communities and households over forest possession, in addition to claims of kid labor and human trafficking related to cocoa manufacturing.
Including to the controversy is the controversial lease settlement of a 500-acre forest, one thing which native residents say was performed with out their full consent or satisfactory session.
Stakeholders, together with conventional leaders, native authorities, and representatives of the Forestry Growth Authority (FDA), shall be interviewed through the go to.
LFMW says the findings are anticipated to tell nationwide coverage discussions and draw consideration to what some analysts describe as a “silent disaster” threatening each neighborhood stability and biodiversity conservation in southeastern Liberia.
The initiative can also be being welcomed by environmental teams and rights advocates, who imagine that reviews arising from this go to might make clear the advanced interaction of migration, useful resource management, and political affect on the nation’s forest in opposition to neighborhood rights to possession.
