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Food & Drink
Rice and spicy meat sauces or fish stews are popular Liberian dishes. Palm butter with
fish and potato greens are two favourites. Other popular dishes include palava sauce
(made with plato leaf, dried fish or meat and palm oil) and jollof rice (rice and vegetables
with meat or fish). American food is popular in Monrovia. Club beer is the local brew.
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Environment
Illegal logging both during and after the conflict has threatened a number of species in
Liberia, including the forest elephant, hawk, pygmy hippo (nigh-on impossible to see),
manatee and chimpanzee. Liberia's rainforests, which now cover about 40% of the coun-
try, comprise a critical part of the Guinean Forests of West Africa Hotspot, an exception-
ally biodiverse area stretching across 11 countries in the region.
Liberia's low-lying coastal plain is intersected by marshes, creeks and tidal lagoons,
and bisected by at least nine major rivers. Inland is a densely forested plateau rising to low
mountains in the northeast. The highest point is Mt Nimba (1362m).
 
 
 
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