Sierra Leone is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of global climate change, partly as a result of human-caused degradation of the environment. In September 2015, Sierra Leone's capital encountered its most devastating flood in history, temporarily rendering almost 5,000 people homeless, damaging properties and causing substantial impacts on local livelihoods.
The once thickly forested hill slopes of the Freetown Peninsula and Western Rural Area, for example, are largely denuded. Many people consider the Freetown hills ideal to build homes, as they are less crowded than the densely populated lower lying areas of the city.
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