Liberia: Chocolate Profits, Vanishing Forests

[Liberian Observer] Liberia’s remaining tropical rainforests, among the last intact stretches of the Upper Guinean forest ecosystem, are facing an accelerating threat driven not from within the country alone, but from Europe’s insatiable appetite for chocolate. That is the stark warning from Charlie Hammans, a forests investigator with the international watchdog Global Witness, following an in-depth investigation into Liberia’s cocoa sector.