(Reuters) - A national park that provides clean water to Sierra Leone's capital Freetown is critically under threat due to human activities such as land grabbing, charcoal burning, quarrying and marijuana cultivation, a U.N. report said on Tuesday.
The park has lost about 26% of its 18,000 hectares (180 square kilometres) of forest cover since the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) started measuring it in 2016, according to the latest analysis.
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