Liberia

Liberia is the country that keeps the most Upper Guinean moist forest: it is reckoned to hold around forty per cent of what remains of this ecosystem, spread between Sapo national park, the Nimba and Wonegizi mountains and several forest blocks in the southeast. Sapo, the largest park in the country, is dense primary forest of emergent trees and closed understorey where forest elephants, pygmy hippopotamuses, chimpanzees, duikers and seven species of diurnal primate live. The coast, almost six hundred kilometres long, alternates mangroves, brackish lagoons and sea turtle nesting beaches. The Cavalla, Saint Paul and Cestos rivers cross the forest forming corridors where the dwarf crocodile and the spotted-necked otter survive, and the northern mountains receive rainfall that sustains cloud forest.