‘Nigeria Lost 37.5% Forest Reserve in 15 Years ‘

Federal Government said yesterday that more than 37  percent of the country's forest reserves were  lost between 1990 and 2005 as a result of illegal and uncontrolled logging, incessant bush burning, fuel wood gathering and clearing of forests for other land uses.   Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey, who gave statistics of the negative impact of deforestation on the countr...

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