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 ...

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, ...

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

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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.

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 ...

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.

The Federal Government on Wednesday said progress has been recorded in eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases, with approximately 30 million Nigerians weaned off treatment with ivermectin.Ivermectin ...

Pressure is mounting to stop construction of a proposed six-lane highway through a Nigerian rainforest that is home to hundreds of thousands of people and vulnerable wildlife.

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 ...

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