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Credit: Kevin Schafer Credit: M. Varney/FFI

ALL PANGOLINS

Credit: MKlailova/ WildCRU Credit: Bernard Dupont

Credit: MKlailova/ WildCRU

WESTERN CHIMPANZEE LIBERIAN MONGOOSE ALL HORNBILLS ROYAL ANTELOPE Credit: Kispál Attila

Credit: Charlotte Credit: Peter Chadwick van der Gaag ZEBRA DUIKER

ALL PARROTS ALL SEA TURTLES Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region Credit: M. Varney/FFI

PYGMY HIPPO ALL BIRDS OF PREY

BONGO Credit: Tina Vogt/FFI Credit: Phichak Credit: Credit: M. Varney/FFI Credit: Girls SITS

WATER CHEVROTAIN WildCRU Credit: MKlailova/

WHITE-BREASTED GUINEAFOWL OGILBY’S DUIKER WHITE-NECKED ROCKFOWL Credit: MKlailova/WildCRU PROTECTED FOREST BUFFALO Credit: Jason Wharam Jason Credit: LEOPARD ANIMALSof Liberia

WEST AFRICAN MANATEE

JENTINK’S DUIKER Credit: Dr. Kathryn Shutt/FFI –DSPA ALL CROCODILES Credit: Brent Huffman Brent Credit:

Credit: Credit: MKlailova/ WildCRU GOLDEN CAT Credit: Bernard Dupont

Credit: MKlailova/WildCRU Credit: Janos Rautonen Credit: Tsuneo Nakamura/Volvox Inc / Alamy Nakamura/Volvox Tsuneo Credit:

ALL SHARKS & RAYS FOREST ELEPHANT Credit: Bruce McAdam Bruce Credit:

ALL MONKEYS ALL TURACOS

GIANT FOREST HOG Credit: Rich Carey Credit: Brian Gratwicke Credit: Tina Vogt/FFI Credit:

Credit: Dennis Chanter Credit: YELLOW-BACKED DUIKER RED RIVER HOG ALL PYTHONS Credit: MKlailova/WildCRU Credit:

HUNTING OF PROTECTED ANIMALS IN LIBERIA, BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF PROTECTED AREAS, IS PUNISHABLE BY LAW. Anyone caught hunting, buying, selling, capturing, hosting as pet or eating a protected animal will be prosecuted.

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“AN ACT ADOPTING THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT LAW OF LIBERIA” APPROVED OCTOBER 5, 2016

CHAPTER 11: (h) Hunting in a game reserve without a permit or OFFENSES AND PENALTIES license US $250 to $500 or four to six months imprisonment

Section 11.2 Specific Offences and Penalties (i) Hunting without a permit or license US $250 to $500 or one year imprisonment Violation Penalty (j) Trophy hunting and export of protected animal (a) Possession of weapons in protected area without a permit or license US $5,000 to US $50 to $200 or 30 days to six months $10,000 or four years imprisonment Imprisonment Section 11.3 Repeat Offenders (b) Hunting in a national park US $1,000 to $2,000 or six to 12 months Imprisonment Any Person who, within two years of his conviction of an offense against the provisions of (c) Killing of leopard, elephant or hippopotamus this Law and its Regulations is convicted of US $5,000 to $10,000 or 2 to 4 years a second offense against the provisions of this imprisonment law shall: (d) Killing or destruction of any other protected (a) be liable to a fine of not less than US $500 animal without permit or license $250 to and not more than US $1,000 or to a term of $5,000 or four to six months imprisonment; imprisonment or not less than one year and auction of product and deposit of proceeds not more than two years, into FDA’s account and confiscation of weaponry used in commission of the offence (b) suffer the permanent confiscation of any weapon or device used in the commission of (e) Cutting trees, farming in a national park US such offense $250 to $500 or 30 days imprisonment (f) Fishing in a national park or nature reserve Section 11.4 Offenses by Authority Officers without permit or license US $100 to $150 or Any officer of the Authority who is convicted sixty to one hundred days imprisonment of an offense against the provisions of this (g) Possession of live animal without permit or Law shall, in addition to prosecution under this license US $ 100 to $150 or three months Law be subject to disciplinary action including imprisonment suspension without pay and dismissal.

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