Below is a list of tree species in the Liberian rainforest and the tropical Timbers of Liberia Manual
The tropical Timbers of Liberia Manual
This production of this manual is part of the “Building Capacities of Small-Medium Forest Enterprises (SMFEs) in Ghana and Liberia to Supply and Trade in Legal Timber” project which was executed by the Nature & Development Foundation (NDF) and the Liberia Timber Association (LibTA) with funding from UK-Aid under the Forest Governance, Markets and Climate Programme (FGMC)
The descriptive text and data presented in this manual have been freely collected from numerous credible sources and compiled for usage by member companies of LibTA as well as the wider pub- lic, inside and outside of Liberia.
This manual contains concise, but comprehensive and in-depth in- formation that encourages the optimum use of the sixty-five (65) commercial timber tree species listed in schedule one of the 2007 Ten Code Regulation of the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) of Liberia.
The information includes technical descriptions (weight, natural durability, strength, shrinkage, movement in service, indication of forest availability, working properties, historical production vol- umes, principal end use, as well as the product groups, and an in- dex of botanical and common/ trade name of individual wood tim- ber species.
