Sapo National Park Expansion
Newsletter: Volume1, Issue 2 - August 2004
 Sapo
National Park is Liberia's only fully protected national park
and was founded in 1983. From 1983 until 1989, the park staff,
local and international NGOs, as well as local communities, worked
closely to support the management of the park. However, from 1990
to the present Liberia has been embroiled in civil conflict.
In 2003, the government of Liberia increased the size of Sapo
National Park from an area of 323,075 acres to 445,667 acres.
However, a lot has changed in the communities adjacent to the
park since rebel forces took control of the area.
FPI, concerned with maintaining broad community support for Sapo
NP, has received funding from the Tropical Rainforest Programme
of the IUCN-Netherlands to conduct a socio-economic survey of
those areas that have newly become part of the park.
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