Kasewe Forest Reserve
Kasewe Forest Reserve is an area of hills in the Moyamba District of Sierra Leone . It is designated as a forest reserve and contains moist semi-deciduous and evergreen forests that cover an area of 1.224 kmĀ².[1][2] Made up of volcanic rock the hills stand about 500m above the interior plains of the country.[3][4] The nearest town is Lunsar.
See also
Protected areas of Sierra Leone
References
- ^ World Database on Protected Areas: Site Information, UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, retrieved on 10 January 2008
- ^ Broadleaved forests Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, 10 January 2008
- ^ D. J. Bowden, The geochemistry and development of lateritized footslope benches: The Kasewe Hills, Sierra Leone, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, v. 120, p. 295-305 (1997), retrieved on 10 January 2008
- ^ Jennifer Lytwyna, Kevin Burkea and Stephen Culver, The nature and location of the suture zone in the Rokelide orogen, Sierra Leone: Geochemical evidence, Journal of African Earth Sciences Volume 46, Issue 5, December 2006, Pages 439-454, retrieved on 10 January 2008