A Guide to the Environmental Impacts of Mining in Liberia

This brief describes the environmental impacts of mining in Liberia. As a part of our work for A Rapid Assessment of Liberia’s Mining Sector, we mapped, for the first time, the overlap between mining license areas and forest designations (protected areas, logging concessions, and community forests).

This analysis showed that mining undermines Liberia’s national and international obligations to reach the goal of protecting 30 percent of its land area by 2030 and its ability to meet its climate change mitigation goals, including reducing its deforestation rate by 10 percent.