Edwin Ogar News Today

By PATRICK ABANG Calabar - No fewer than twenty-eight Civil Society Organizations (CSO) has expressed concerned over the increasing rate of illegal logging in Cross River communities . This is contained in an open letter made available to some newsmen yesterday in Calabar from Indigenous people, CSOs and environmental experts and addressed to the Minister

By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar - A community leader and environment expert, Chief Edwin Ogar has warned that Cross River State Government may not benefit from UN-REED Programme if logging activities continued unabated in the state. The UN-REED Programme is funded by UNDP Multi-Partnes Trust Fund and provides the funding to the UN REED. The United

Members of forest community in Akamkpa local government area of Cross River have called on the state government to check the high level of timber exploitation alleged to be carried out by one Ezemac International Nigeria Limited. Mr Edwin Ogar, Programme Coordinator of Worthy Association for Tackling Environmental Ruins (WATER), raised the concerns of the

Ekuri forest, the largest community forest in Nigeria and a protected Community Conserved Area (CCA) that has equal status with national protected forests in Nigeria registered under the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) in Cross River State is under threat of extinction through activities of reckless logging.