Liberia is endowed with abundant natural resources, with forest products accounting for a significant amount of these resources. Liberia’s forest occupies 43% of the remaining Upper Guinea Forest and biodiversity includes 590 species of birds; 125 mammal species; 1,000 insect species, and 2,000 flowering plants, 59 of which are endemic to the country’s 240 timber species, 60 of which have been exported. Recent reforms aim to make the forest sector meaningful to economic growth and development. Click the link below to see a list of tree species.
