Nigeria drove thousands of gold miners from a national park. But can it keep them out?

Mongabay
Oct 17, 2026, 12:18 pm102 ptsTrending
A military-backed operation shut down a major illegal gold mining site in Gashaka-Gumti National Park, driving more than 4,000 miners from Nigeria’s largest national park, according to the Africa Nature Investors Foundation (ANI). The miners had already fled by the time Nigerian soldiers arrived at the Kila…

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