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Reuters: The slopes of Leicester Peak, a protected rainforest on a hill above Sierra Leone's capital, are a jumble of haphazard development and half-finished villas.
Concrete buildings cluster against a tangle of trees and vines -- a construction site in a forest reserve that supplies the city of Freetown with its water and where building is meant to be banned.
It highlights a common problem across Africa, where efforts to halt forest loss are routinely flouted, often with the consent of a cash-strapped......
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Forest loss threatens Sierra Leone water supplies
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 7th, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation