A local chief of ancestral land in Sierra Leone, Africa,has illegally leased land in the Gola Rainforest to UK-owned Sabel Mining in April.
Sable Mining issued a statement in May announcing its purchase of an 80 percent interest in Red Rock Mining, which had apparently bought the lease for 206 square kilometres of Bagla Hills from the local Tonkia Paramount Chief.
The country’s President Ernest Bai Koroma declared the 75,000-hectare rainforest a protected area and a national park in December. The forest type is one of the world's 25 global bio-diversity hotspots. The government issued a statement saying that any sale of Bagla Hills, as well as mining in the rainforest, is illegal.
Stop plans for illegal mining in protected rainforest.
SOURCE:
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106284
Alhaji Alpha Saahid Bakarr
Minister of the Ministry of Mineral Resources
Republic of Sierra Leone
Youyi Building
Brookfields
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Tel: +232 22 240059
Fax: +232 22 242107 / 240467
Email: director@sierratel.sl
A local chief of ancestral land in Sierra Leone, Africa,has illegally leased land in the Gola Rainforest to UK-owned Sabel Mining in April.
Sable Mining issued a statement in May announcing its purchase of an 80 percent interest in Red Rock Mining, which had apparently bought the lease for 206 square kilometres of Bagla Hills from the local Tonkia Paramount Chief.
The country’s President Ernest Bai Koroma declared the 75,000-hectare rainforest a protected area and a national park in December. The forest type is one of the world's 25 global bio-diversity hotspots. The government issued a statement saying that any sale of Bagla Hills, as well as mining in the rainforest, is illegal.
Stop plans for illegal mining in protected rainforest.
SOURCE:
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106284
