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The Sierra Leone National Museum, previously known as the Sierra Leone Museum and the Museum of the Sierra Leone Society, is the national museum of Sierra Leone. it is located at the junction of Siaka Stevens Street and Pademba Road, in central Freetown.

The Sierra Leone Legal Aid Board is an independent non-profit organization that came into existence in 2015. It has a national mandate to provide, administrate, coordinate and monitor the provision of legal aid in civil and criminal matters as set out in the Legal Aid Board Act 2012. Prior to the establishment of the Board in May 2015, efforts at ensuring equal treatment before the law were fraught with serious challenges. 

Bala Amarasekaran and his wife Sharmila were travelling through a village about 150 miles north of Freetown when they saw a weak and sick baby chimpanzee offered for sale. The animal lovers paid $20 for him suspecting that if he was left without care for much longer, he would probably die. Like most people, Bala and Sharmila knew very little about chimpanzees; let alone how to care for a tiny infant. However, with care and attention, the little chimpanzee began to recover and was named Bruno.

The vision of Gola Rainforest National Park is to act as a catalyst for peace, prosperity and national pride in Sierra Leone, ensuring that its globally important habitats, biodiversity, environmental services and wider landscape are conserved and that neighbouring communities are active environmental stewards of the natural resource base that underpins and enhances their livelihoods.

The Outamba-Kilimi National Park along Sierra Leone’s northwestern border with Guinea is made up of two separate units; Outamba to the east (shown above) and Kilimi to the west. Both are predominantly covered by woodland savanna with smaller areas of forest, gallery forest and open grassland. Outamba is generally more wooded than Kilimi and has more relief. Created in 1995 when hunting pressure was increasingly threatening the area’s wildlife, it was the country’s first national park.

Tiwai Island (Mende for ‘Big Island’) is a wildlife sanctuary and community-led tourism site within the heart of the Upper Guinea forest of West Africa, in south-eastern Sierra Leone.

The island is home to a population of pygmy hippopotami, over 135 different species of birds and one of the highest concentrations and diversity of primates in the world. The ecotourism camp on Tiwai Island is run by the national NGO Environmental Foundation for Africa -Sierra Leone (EFASL)