Esau J. Farr

Liberia: Community Seizes Loggers’ Equipment in Bassa

GAYPUE TOWN, Grand Bassa County – Local leaders in a Grand Bassa community forest have seized a logging company’s equipment for failing…

Liberia: Sinoe Communities Try New Conservation Method

GBOYEE TOWN; DIYANKPO, Sinoe County – In June, the people in Wedjah District signed an agreement with an NGO to protect 7,131…

Liberia: DayLight Reporters Escape ‘Country Devil’

SEEKON – Two DayLight reporters narrowly escaped a masked dancer last Wednesday in the Seekon Pellokon Community Forest in Sinoe County.  

‘DON’T SHIELD THE FINDINGS’: Unpublished FDA Report Confirms Company’s Illegal Logging

MONROVIA – A logging company cut numerous trees outside its authorized area in a Nimba community forest, according to an unpublished, official…

Liberia: Loggers Harvest Trees Outside Authorized Area

SEHYI-GEH – Earlier this year, Westwood Corporation, a firm with no known logging experience, harvested timber outside its authorized area in the…

Liberia: Logs from Conservation Forest Illegally Exported to Europe

Liberia: Men, Tradition Denying Women’s Rights to Land

JORPOLU CLAN, Bong County – In 2018, Liberia passed the Land Rights Act. The historic legislation grants communities and women customary ownership of ancestral land,…

Liberia: Bong Clan Nears Official Survey

ROCK CRUSHER – A clan in Kokoyah District, Bong County, is close to qualifying for an official survey for a customary land deed.  The Quikon…

Liberia: Beekeeping and Loan Protect Sinoe Forest

KABADA, Sinoe County – Jackson Tweh makes a living from beekeeping. Tweh, 35, and a father of six children has six beehives,…

Liberia: FDA Permitted Export of 100% Illegal Logs

BUCHANAN, Grand Bassa County – LiberTrace, a computerized timber-tracking system, can detect one illegal log from a consignment of a thousand. So, it…