About Us

Centre for Environment, Forest Conservation and Research (CENFOR) is a local non- governmental organisation established in 2016. It was registered with the Government of Liberia as a not-for-profit environmental organisation through the Liberia Business Registry on 9 September 2016. CENFOR’s head office is located in the Nature Building, Disco Hill, Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County. We began our activities in the proposed Grebo Forest National Park in 2016 and were involved in its pre-gazettement activities. We continued our collaboration with its Management and Wild Chimpanzee Foundation when its name was changed to proposed Grebo-Krahn National Park and to its final designation as a protected area in 2017.  Our activities include awareness raising in communities and schools, implementation of community development and livelihood projects and combatting wildlife trafficking through collaboration with relevant Government institutions in the Tai-Grebo-Krahn-Sapo (TGKS) forest complex.

CENFOR has implemented projects in the Grebo Krahn National Park funded by the German Embassy in Liberia, Wild Chimpanzee Foundation and Alongside Wildlife Foundation, Gainsville, Florida, USA, etc. In collaboration with Management of Grebo-Krahn National Park, Wild Chimpanzee Foundation (WCF), Forestry Development Authority and school authorities, CENFOR established wildlife clubs in communities around Grebo-Krahn National Park.  CENFOR is a member of the Transboundary Law Enforcement Technical Committee (TLETC) created by the Bilateral Steering Committee of TGKS forest complex. The TLETC comprises relevant government institutions, civil society organisations and the judiciary in southeastern Liberia and western Cote d’Ivoire. As a representative of civil society organisations on TLETC, CENFOR participated in two meetings in Abidjan and one in Monrovia from 2018 to 2019 aimed at combatting illegal harvesting of natural resources including wildlife poaching and trafficking. Activities of the TLETC were funded by USAID under its West African Biodiversity and Climate Change (WABICC) Programme which ended in 2020.