The government in Ogun state, which owns the forest, said in a statement to AP that the “menace of cocoa farming” in the reserve dates back decades and that “all the illegal farmers were forcefully evicted” in 2007 before they found their way back.
Nigerian cocoa farmers are relocating into protected portions of a forest reserve that is home to endangered species like African forest elephants as the
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