WCF, EU, FDA and partners launch EU-funded conservation project SUSTAIN in southeastern Liberia

On March 13, 2025, the Ambassador of the European Union to Liberia, the Liberian Forestry Development Authority (FDA), the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, the Society for Conservation of Nature Liberia (SCNL) and the Universal Outreach Foundation (UOF), alongside local officials, community members and other partners, officially launched the "SUSTAIN – Sustainable forest conservation in southeastern Liberia" project at the Sapo National Park headquarters in Jalay Town.

This three-year initiative, funded by the European Union, aims to enhance protected area management with the participation of local communities, including law enforcement, biomonitoring, livelihoods, ecotourism, awareness, and infrastructure, in and around Grebo-Krahn, Sapo, and the Proposed Kwa National Parks in Liberia. It aims to boost and complement past, ongoing and future conservation efforts in the transboundary Taï-Grebo-Krahn-Sapo Forest Complex, one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotpots and last remaining refuge for forest-dwelling, critically endangered western chimpanzees and African forest elephants.