LIBERIA’S COASTAL WETLANDS FORM A CRITICAL ECOSYSTEM BUT OUR FAST GROWING COASTAL POPULATION IS THREATENING THEM. IN THIS PROGRAM WE LEARN MORE ABOUT WETLANDS AND VISIT COMMUNITIES THAT LIVE ON THEM. WE LOOK AT THE KAILONDO GAS STATION AND ASK WHAT IS HOLDING UP AN EPA ORDER TO SHUT IT DOWN. BUT FIRST, ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES TO WETLANDS IS THE MOUTAINS OF GARBAGE AND SEWAGE FLOODING MONROVIA. IN SLUM COMMUNITIES PEOPLE ARE BATTLING INSECTS, RATS AND DISEASE. THE ISSU...
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LIBERIA’S COASTAL WETLANDS FORM A CRITICAL ECOSYSTEM BUT OUR FAST GROWING COASTAL POPULATION IS THREATENING THEM. IN THIS PROGRAM WE LEARN MORE ABOUT WETLANDS AND VISIT COMMUNITIES THAT LIVE ON THEM. WE LOOK AT THE KAILONDO GAS STATION AND ASK WHAT IS HOLDING UP AN EPA ORDER TO SHUT IT DOWN. BUT FIRST, ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES TO WETLANDS IS THE MOUTAINS OF GARBAGE AND SEWAGE FLOODING MONROVIA. IN SLUM COMMUNITIES PEOPLE ARE BATTLING INSECTS, RATS AND DISEASE. THE ISSU...
Can Liberians Save Their Forest? And Can Their Forest Save the World?
Liberia Land Wahala
28 minutes
3 years ago
Can Liberians Save Their Forest? And Can Their Forest Save the World?
Climate change is ravaging our region but Liberia has one major asset. One of the world’s largest tracts of forest is right here –trees play a major role in helping halt climate change. But the forest also plays a key role –providing for our fast growing population. Can Liberians find other ways to provide for themselves? And what next for president Weah’s African carbon credit scheme? "What nature has placed in this country makes us one of the most nature-based valua...
Liberia Land Wahala
LIBERIA’S COASTAL WETLANDS FORM A CRITICAL ECOSYSTEM BUT OUR FAST GROWING COASTAL POPULATION IS THREATENING THEM. IN THIS PROGRAM WE LEARN MORE ABOUT WETLANDS AND VISIT COMMUNITIES THAT LIVE ON THEM. WE LOOK AT THE KAILONDO GAS STATION AND ASK WHAT IS HOLDING UP AN EPA ORDER TO SHUT IT DOWN. BUT FIRST, ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES TO WETLANDS IS THE MOUTAINS OF GARBAGE AND SEWAGE FLOODING MONROVIA. IN SLUM COMMUNITIES PEOPLE ARE BATTLING INSECTS, RATS AND DISEASE. THE ISSU...
