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Mount Barclay, Montserrado County, Liberia
  • Since the 1980s, Liberia has lost 19,000 elephants to illegal poaching
  • Liberia is the most recent country to work with the European Union (EU) on ending the illegal logging trade
  • Liberia's tropical rain forest constitutes 40% of West Africa's total
  • Logging activities have resumed in Liberia since UN imposed sactions in 2003

 

The Sapo National Park

The Sapo National Park is Liberia's largest reserve rain forest consisting on thousands different species of trees and animals, some unique to Liberia while others are rare and protected species.

  

 

 

It's almost as though pygmy hippopotamus, this normally shy mammal were posing for the camera. The black-and-white image of a pygmy hippopotamus half-facing the camera is the first ever of a pygmy hippopotamus in Liberia. Perhaps even more astonishing EDGE, the organization that accomplished the photo, believes the image to be only the second photographic evidence of the animal in the wild (the first was taken in 2006 in Sierra Leone). This incredibly secretive animal is usually known through its prints and dung.

 
   

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