Nigeria’s strategy to combat illegal logging and poaching
ABUJA, Jan 23 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — Facing catastrophic deforestation, Nigeria is deploying an unconventional defense: recruiting the very poachers and loggers who once threatened its last wildlife refuges. In Okomu National Park, the NGO Africa Nature Investors (ANI), now trains former offenders as armed rangers. With Nigeria having lost 96% of…

