Tag Archives: Liberia

Forest Monitor

Posted on January 17, 2008 by

Dr. Alan Grainger, from the University of Leeds, has questioned whether the popular assertions about deforestation are valid. He acknowledges that deforestation is occurring, but examining FAO time-series data he has found a number of errors and inconsistencies, but no … Continue reading →

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Adventurers, explorers and writers

Posted on November 1, 2007 by

Adventurers and explorers have also often been good writers. Many early travellers in the first part of the twentieth century were prompted by their schoolboy reading (they were predominantly men, Sybille Bedford being an exception), and most are characterised by … Continue reading →

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Fellow travellers

Posted on October 10, 2007 by

Not having visited the tropics has not been seen as a drawback for a number of writers who have written ‘rainforest’ novels. Jenny Diski who wrote “Rainforest” (1987) – which is a fine novel – happily admits that for her … Continue reading →

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Sasabonsam

Posted on October 6, 2007 by

“The Evil Forest” is a short story in a collection the “Marriage of Wisdom and other stories from Liberia” by Wilton Sankawulo. Originally published by Heinemann Educational Books in 1974 and reprinted in 1981, the copy that I found in … Continue reading →

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Davids and Goliaths

Posted on October 4, 2007 by

The UK Guardian newspaper reports today that the World Bank’s own internal investigation has shown serious shortcomings in its forest policy advice and lending in the Congo, which has endangered the lives of Pygmy forest communities. The bank apparently overestimated … Continue reading →

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