In Nigeria, a highway threatens community and conservation interests

Mongabay
Jul 9, 2019, 5:51 am167 ptsTrending
OKUNI, Nigeria — The bulldozers returned to the forests of Cross River state in southeastern Nigeria in January. Their metal blades resumed tearing down rainforest, rubber and cocoa plantations, homes and farms to make way for a six-lane superhighway, dispossessing thousands of villagers and threatening…

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