Stakeholders Sound Alarm over Rainforest Destruction in Cross River, Propose Legal Reform and Anti-Mining Roadmap

Stakeholders Sound Alarm over Rainforest Destruction in Cross River, Propose Legal Reform and Anti-Mining Roadmap

By Kelvin Obambon Environmental experts, legal practitioners, conservationists, and community leaders gathered in Calabar on Thursday for the 4th Multi-Stakeholder Conference on Deforestation in Cross River State, issuing an urgent call to action against illegal logging, destructive mining, and agricultural encroachment threatening Nigeria’s primary rainforest ecosystem. The event, organized by civil society group We The…

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Stakeholders call for urgent action as deforestation crisis deepens in Cross River

Stakeholders call for urgent action as deforestation crisis deepens in Cross River

  By Kelvin Obambon The destruction of Cross River’s rainforest, the ‘largest’ remaining pristine forest in West Africa, is reaching a catastrophic level, prompting warning by experts and activists that without immediate action, the rainforests could vanish entirely within a few decades. The warning was issued at a one-day multi-stakeholder conference on deforestation organized by…

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