EU Moves To Check Deforestation By Cocoa Farmers In Cross River
De Luca Massimo, Head of Cooperation at the Delegation of the EU, making a presentation at the stakeholders’ meeting on Thursday.
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WCS Partners Satelligence To Combat Deforestation In Nigeria’s Cross River Landscape
By Anietie Akpan This week, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Satelligence have launched a new partnership focused on supporting a deforestation-free sustainable cocoa landscape in Cross River landscape in Nigeria. The partnership will put in place a landscape-level forest monitoring system that will deliver real-time deforestation alerts to wildlife conservation agents in Cross River…
TCRI Explains Reduction in Communal Clashes, Seeks Support for Gov Otu
By Magnus Effiong An advocacy group, ‘Think Cross River Initiative’ has given insight on why incessant communal clashes and killings, which had bedeviled the State for decades in many local government areas, reduced drastically within the past fifteen months. The initiator of the ‘Think Cross River Initiative’, Mr Edem Darlington, who made the disclosure in…
NRWDI, Global Greengrants Fund, Train Cross River Coastal Women On Climate Change Impact, Others
Participants from Ikot Ekong community, Akpabuyo LGAi n a group photograph after the training. By Anietie Akpan The Nkori Rural Women Development Initiative (NRWDI) has trained 120 women in some coastal communities of Cross River state on climate change impacts and the critical role of mangroves in mitigating these impacts. The capacity building training programme…
Lawmaker Blames Akwa Ibom Gas Pipeline Leak On Negligence By Savannah Energy
Hon Unyime Idem, (in white sutan) chatting with some members of the Gas Pipeline Leak communities at the site. By Anietie Akpan The Federal Lawmaker representing Ukanafun/Oruk Anam Federal Constituency, Hon Unyime Idem, has lambasted Savannah Energy over gas pipeline leak ín Akwa Ibom state saying there is no surveillance. Idem showed his resentment at…
Why CRHA Orders Investigation Into Massive Logging In Okuni Forest
Large scale immature and under-girth sizes of Tropical High Forest Timber in the Chinese company logged illegally in the Okuni community forest, its environs, By Anietie Akpan A petition from the Rainforest Resource & Development Centre (RRDC) has caused the Cross River State House of Assembly. (CRHA) to set up a special committee to investigate…