The project manager of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), Emmanuel Olabode, told the media that the environment is deteriorating due to adverse phenomena such as excessive logging, uncontrolled agriculture and animal poaching.

According to the source, in order to protect the fauna in the jungle area, the government designated some 55,000 hectares as conservation zones.

He indicated that in order to alleviate the insufficient number of personnel working to protect the resources in the Omo Biosphere Reserve, NCF, among other initiatives in conjunction with the Executive, is hiring new rangers, many of them already claimed to be poachers.

According to Africa News, in order to safeguard populations from African elephants, monkeys and pangolins, among other species that could become extinct, the rangers have placed security cameras in trees to detect illegal poachers.

They are also fighting to eradicate unauthorized human settlements in forested areas, who cut down trees to survive in order to plant crops and extract timber resources.

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