The Upper Guinea heritage: nature conservation in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

摘要: The two neighbouring countries, Libera and Sierra Leone, are situated in the heart of Upper Guinea forest region. This region is one earth's most biologically diverse was originally covered by a continuous block dense tropical rainforest, ranging from south through Liberia to Ivory Coast Ghana. Much this cover has already been lost what little remains under serious threat commercial activities, such as logging, mineral mining subsistence activities an ever growing population. Civil conflicts also taking their toll. status nature countries depicted using case studies pictures