Due to the unique climate in Azerbaijan, about 67 percent of the species growing in the whole Caucasus can be found in Azerbaijan. Since its independence in 1991, the Azerbaijani government has taken drastic measures to preserve its environment.

Liberia possesses about forty percent of the remaining Upper Guinean rainforest, and is a global biodiversity hotspot – hosting the last remaining viable populations of certain species including western chimpanzees, forest elephants and leopards.

Although the Guinean and Ivorian sides of the Nimba Massif, a protected area, are a UNESCO Strict Nature Reserve, the portion of the so-called Guinean Backbone continues into Liberia, where it has been mined for decades.