Gola Forest National Park cuts across Sierra Leone and Liberia. “It is a pity as a country to sit and see the Gola Forest National Park go the way it is going,” Garbo says. OutnumberedApart from being unarmed, forest rangers at Gola Park are outnumbered by illicit miners. He said 40 of them will be recruited as eco-guards and will help rangers protect the park from illicit miners and poachers. In the last five years, the country has created this park, Grebo-Krahn National Park, East Nimba National Reserve, and Lake Piso Multiple Use Reserve.

Source: Daily Observer December 23, 2019 05:03 UTC