YEREVAN, Armenia, Oct. 27 -- Liberian environmental expert Sylvia Diamond Dorbor has drawn praise from participants at the ongoing United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Yerevan, Armenia, after outlining Liberia's longstanding forest conservation commitments, national legal framework and emerging approaches to ensuring that communities benefit financially from protecting the country's natural resources.

By Selma Lomax, selma.lomax@frontpageafricaonline.com

Dorbor, Technical Lead of the Guinean Forests Integrated Program Liberia Project and Sustainable Finance Coordinator at the Society for the Conservation of Nature of Liberia (SCNL), delivered her presentation during a panel discussion examining Africa's progress toward achieving th...