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Line 162: |accessdate=March 31, 2015 }}</ref> These free African-Americans and their descendants married within their community and came to identify as [[Americo-Liberian]]s. Many were of mixed race and educated in American culture; they did not identify with the indigenous natives of the tribes they encountered. They intermarried largely within the colonial community, developing an ethnic group that had a cultural tradition infused with American notions of political republicanism and Protestant Christianity.<ref> {{cite web |last = Wegmann |first = Andrew N |date = May 5, 2010 |title = Christian Community and the Development of an Americo-Liberian Identity, 1824–1878 |url = http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-06092010-200522/ |publisher = Louisiana State University |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100630111501/http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-06092010-200522/ |archivedate = June 30, 2010 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> Line 567 ⟶ 571: [[Illegal logging]] has increased in Liberia since the end of the [[Second Liberian Civil War|Second Civil War in 2003]].<ref name="mmg"/> In 2012, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf granted licenses to companies to cut down 58% of all the primary rainforest left in Liberia.<ref name="mmg"/> After international protests, many of those logging permits were canceled.<ref name="mmg"/> Liberia and [[Norway]] struck an agreement in September 2014 whereby Liberia ceases all logging in exchange for $150 million in development aid.<ref name="mmg"/> Pollution is a significant issue in Liberia's capital city [[Monrovia]].<ref name="obs">[http://www.liberianobserver.com/environment/monrovia’s-‘never-ending’-pollution-issues-2013 "Monrovia's 'Never-Ending' Pollution Issues In 2013", Edwin M. Fayia III, The [[Liberian Observer]], December 30, 2014.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226052254/http://www.liberianobserver.com/environment/monrovia%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98never-ending%E2%80%99-pollution-issues-2013 |date=December 26, 2016 }}</ref> Since 2006 the international community has paid for all garbage collection and disposal in Monrovia via the [[World Bank]].<ref>[http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/IDA/0,,contentMDK:22301640~menuPK:4754051~pagePK:51236175~piPK:437394~theSitePK:73154,00.html "Digging Out Monrovia from the Waste of War", The World Bank – International Development Association, August 2009.]</ref> ==Politics== Line 791 ⟶ 795: | accessdate = May 1, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | | | | | | | }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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