The activist who fought for Sierra Leone's first World Heritage site

The activist who fought for Sierra Leone's first World Heritage site

Terra Daily

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Freetown (AFP) July 13, 2025

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island - a lush forest home to one of the world's highest concentrations of primates - landed a spot Sunday on the UN cultural agency's World Heritage list. The 66-year-old and the conservation group he founded are the reason Tiwai, which was nearly destroyed during Sierra Leone's 1991-2002 civil war, still exists.

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