Lagos, Nigeria: It is six years since the government of Cross River state, on the southeast coast of Nigeria, granted approval to the Hong Kong company WEMPCO to undertake logging activities in more ...

Babatunde Fatai, a cocoa farmer, holds a cocoa pod at a farm inside the conservation zone of the Omo Forest Reserve in Nigeria, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023.

The Nigerian rainforest is an integral part of the world tropical rainforest, which has been adjudged the most biologically diverse ecosystem on earth. The rainforest covers only 9.7 percent of ...

Back to homepage / Live news The superhighway threatening Nigeria's tropical rainforest. Calabar (Nigeria) (AFP) – ...

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Okoro while briefing newsmen in Port Harcourt, noted that the country’s rich tropical diversity was under threat, with nearly 95% of the world’s mangrove forests and 99% of mangrove species ...

Nigeria has worst deforestation rate, ... Monday the World Bank endorsed carbon trading as a way to save tropical rainforests which are increasingly threatened by logging, ...

According to the World Resources Institute, Nigeria is home to 4,715 different types of plant species, ... Battling to preserve Nigeria's rainforest. By Matthew Knight for CNN.

Following recent invasion of Cross River state's reserved and other areas by unknown timber merchants, a greater part of Nigeria's remaining tropical rain-forest reserve is being threatened.

Nigeria ranks first for Neglected Tropical Diseases, NTDs, such as Schistosomiasis and Onchocerciasis, and third for lymphatic filariasis globally. It also has the greatest number of people ...

Nigeria has some amazing places. There are busy cities , tropical rainforests , and river deltas full of crabs, fish, hippos and butterflies. Image caption, ...

Superhighway threatens Nigeria’s tropical rainforest By Celia Lebur, AFP/Calabar, Nigeria Published on May 16, 2017 | 11:39 PM ...