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Centre for Environmental and Community Development
During the past two decades the world has lost million hectares of tropical rain forests. According to experts, the whirring chain saws and crackling fire have already turned a tract of rainforest larger than the size of Germany into mere grassland.
In Nigeria, instead of a seamless landscape of large treetops few years ago in the south, the forest canopy is now broken by plantation of teaks, Melina, oil palm, cocoa and a stretches of mere sterile soil thinly covered with weeds and exposed streams and ponds that are highly contaminated, silted and become shallows unable to hold water to service the communities year round. This ongoing rainforest destruction is disturbing, because when clearing the virgin rainforest, three to four times of cropping, the soil will be completely exhausted and the desperate farmers tackle these problems by clearing yet more area of forest every year.
Granted, that some land can be left fallows for few years to recovered, but influx of cocoa, and oil palm farmers into Nigeria rain forests in the recent years has limited the space for food crop cultivations. Thus, the circle of return to the lands has become shorter. This situation impaired agricultural yields and necessitate the use of fertilizers and other agro chemicals. Many of these poor native farmers cannot afford this chemicals they were been tempted to sell their land holdings cheaply to those who converted it to monocrops plantations.
The targeted goals of Save the Rainforest Project is to improve the livelihood of rainforest inhabitants, protect and conserve rainforest ecosystems through ethical education and by foster the use of its renewable resources wisely.
We welcome advice, while looking forward for your supports and encouragements.
More on our web page:
www.cecdrainforestnig.8m.net
John Akinnuba Executive Director
Robin Owei Secretary
Tari Ayibakari Fin. Secretary
Visit the Centre for Environmental and Community Development web site.
