Liberia is a country located on the west coast of Africa. According to the U.N. FAO, 44.9% or about 4,329,000 hectares of land in Liberia is covered by forest. About 4% of this forest is classified as primary forest - the part of the forest with native tree species, where there are no human activities. This forest contains 585 million metric tons of carbon in living forest biomass, and serves as a home to 881 known species of amphibians, birds, reptiles, and mammals according to The World Conservation Monitoring Center. 

This forest is now the target of large timber companies. Over the last two decades, Liberia have lost over 600,000 hectares of its forest to logging companies and other companies who use the forest land to plant large plantations. The deforestation of our forest is driven by the government's desperate need to generate revenue in order to invest in infrastructure development and the economy. As the result, our natural wealth, the forest, is gradually being destroyed.