Ekuri Community Forest project in Cross River State is in danger. Almost 60% is already gone and if urgent action is not taken, the remaining 40% will disappear in 2 years. NGO WATER raises the alarm.
Forest communities in Cross River State have expressed worry that almost 60 per cent of Ekuri Community Forest project, in Akamkpa Council of the state, is gone.Forest communities in Cross River State have expressed worry that almost 60 per cent of Ekuri Community Forest project, in Akamkpa Council of the state, is gone.
The Programme Coordinator of WATER, Edwin Ogar, in a statement, yesterday, said: “Ekuri Forest, as we all know, has had a good history of conservation over the years, making it the best communally managed forest in the whole of West Africa. “But at the rate a private company, Ezemac International Limited, and others are going, “in less than two years, the forest would be gone, irrespective of the size, because, already, the other side of the forest on old Ekuri axis is almost gone.
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