By PATRICK ABANG Calabar - No fewer than twenty-eight Civil Society Organizations (CSO) has expressed concerned over the increasing rate of illegal logging in Cross River communities . This is contained in an open letter made available to some newsmen yesterday in Calabar from Indigenous people, CSOs and environmental experts and addressed to the Minister
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
Members of forest community in Akamkpa local government area of Cross River have called on the state government to check the high level of timber exploitation alleged to be carried out by one Ezemac International Nigeria Limited. Mr Edwin Ogar, Programme Coordinator of Worthy Association for Tackling Environmental Ruins (WATER), raised the concerns of the
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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