This project focuses on the mining sector, which has the potential to become a significant engine for growth and broader-based development. It explores the feasibility of implementing a national biodiversity offset scheme in Liberia to help minimize adverse impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services resulting from mining. This scheme could overcome some of the limitations of project-specific biodiversity offsets and at the same time provide an opportunity for the private sector to contribute to an underfunded protected areas network. The project was funded by the World Bank’s Extractives for Development Initiative (E4D) and Program for Forests (PROFOR).
