Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest supplied to big chocolate makers
Cocoa from deforested parts of Omo Forest Reserve makes it into the sweets that they make, such as Snickers, M&Ms, Butterfinger and Nutella
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Cocoa from deforested parts of Omo Forest Reserve makes it into the sweets that they make, such as Snickers, M&Ms, Butterfinger and Nutella
Chocolate farmers are moving into protected areas of a forest reserve in Nigeria, harvesting its cocoa for some of the world’s largest suppliers. But choc…
The government in Ogun state, which owns the forest, said in a statement to AP that the “menace of cocoa farming” in the reserve dates back decades and that “all the illegal farmers were forcefully evicted” in 2007 before they found their way back.
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