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Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation (BBC)
By Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent, BBC News
Liberia is to become the first nation in Africa to completely stop cutting down its trees in return for development aid.
[]Norway will pay the impoverished West African country $150m (£91.4m) to stop deforestation by 2020.
There have been fears that the Ebola crisis would see increased logging in a country desperate for cash.
Norwegian officials confirmed details of the deal to the BBC at the UN climate summit in New York.
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Some researchers have connected the current outbreak of Ebola with the widespread destruction of the forests, bringing people into contact with natural reservoirs of the virus.
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29321143
go Norge !