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BIZARRE: The activist who fought for sierra leone s first world heritage site - What They Never Told You

Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary in Sierra Leone that has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site (Credit: AFP)

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the world's highest concentrations of primates -- landed a spot Sunday on the UN cultural agency's World Heritage list.

The 66-year-old and the conservation group he founded are the reason Tiwai, which was nearly destroyed during Sierra Leone's 1991-2002 civil war, still exists.

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