Tag Archives: Forest

The Tropical Wood Exporters Association of Nigerian (TWEAN) in conjunction with thirteen state governments, have commenced moves to regenerate Nigeria’s forests. Vanguard reports that the exporters have adopted a policy of planting seven trees for every tree that is cut, which is higher that the federal government policy of plating two trees for every tree that is. According to Vanguard, TWEAN ...

The United Nations (UN) has commenced the training of some communities in Cross River State on forest regeneration, due to being faced with the growing threat of deforestation through human activities. Following the training, in 10 years to come the people of Okuromotet would be free from Forest degradation by raising 10,000 Cocoa nurseries, The Guardian reports. This was stated at the ...

Nigeria is losing about 3.5 per cent of its forest, or between 350,000 and 400,000 hectares to deforestation and other economic activities such as logging on an annual basis, conservation experts have said. According to the experts, who spoke at the 14th S. L. Edu Annual Memorial Lecture organised by the Nigerian Conservation Foundation in Lagos, the country’s forest area ...