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 Stories About: deforestation AND grassroots activism AND interview AND logging AND Nigeria AND rainforests
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Can You Odigha It?
Nigerian activist Odigha Odigha fights to halt illegal logging |
Michelle Nijhuis |
14 Apr 2003 |
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| In southeastern Nigeria, private logging companies are felling the country's last remaining rainforests. These hardwood forests shelter the highest diversity of primates in the world and some 20 percent of the planet's butterfly species. Odigha Odigha. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. Odigha Odigha grew up in and around these forests, in the Ijagham community of Cross River State. ... |
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| Topics: deforestation, grassroots activism, interview, logging, Nigeria, rainforests (all these topics) |
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