By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar - A community leader and environment expert, Chief Edwin Ogar has warned that Cross River State Government may not benefit from UN-REED Programme if logging activities continued unabated in the state. The UN-REED Programme is funded by UNDP Multi-Partnes Trust Fund and provides the funding to the UN REED. The United
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar - The Program coordinator of Worthy Association for Tracking Environmental Ruins (WATER) Chief Edwin Ogar on Monday said his organization has dragged the Cross River State Forestry commission to Court over what he called illegal logging in Ekuri Community despite the ban. Chief Ogar said in a statement on Monday in
Ekuri forest, the largest community forest in Nigeria and a protected Community Conserved Area (CCA) that has equal status with national protected forests in Nigeria registered under the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) in Cross River State is under threat of extinction through activities of reckless logging.
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