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Sierra Leone cacao project boosts livelihoods and buffers biodiversity
In eastern Sierra Leone, straddling the border of Liberia, lies Gola Rainforest National Park, one of the last remaining intact tracts of the tropical Upper Guinean forests in West Africa. Towering trees with massive buttress roots create a dense, emerald-hued canopy where monkeys hoot, malimbes chatter and hornbills flutter between the branches with their high-pitched honks and impressive wingspans.
Along the park’s fringes, 122 communities own small patches of the jungle within the four-kilom
Along the park’s fringes, 122 communities own small patches of the jungle within the four-kilom