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Going green in the forests of West Africa

There are still many challenges to preserving the lush green forests of West Africa. The increasing exploitation of our natural resources, especially in the area of ​​indiscriminate logging and uncontrolled felling of endangered tree species, has become an eyesore when we see foreign companies and their accomplices, the governments of the United States. West African states, decimate this gift of nature. One can almost hear the ancient trees on a quiet afternoon while walking down a discreet path in a million-year-old forest silently screaming against man’s inhumanity to himself. Where there used to be a canopy of giant mahogany, cedar, or iroko trees, now there are worthless shrubs, shrubs, saplings, or tree stumps.

Furthermore, the governments of the West African states are either too powerless or simply indifferent about it. Wood is constantly and indiscriminately felled and everyone turns a blind eye. Its laws are practically ineffective and neo-colonialism is the order of the day. The bad news is that we will soon have to say goodbye to our beautiful equatorial jungle with all its stupendous wealth of flora and fauna.

However, there is still much to save and see in some unspoiled or hidden recesses of the African jungle whose beauty only a few have had the privilege of beholding. So well hidden and preserved are these places that one can only imagine what it will be like to see them for oneself while those who have been there relate what they saw. Some of these places have natural barriers that help protect them effectively from greedy exploiters such as loggers and poachers. Here you can see chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and the famous mandrill in the wild; here too are exotic trees and flowering plants too abundant to describe. Then there’s the music of birds fluttering in a rainbow of colors not to mention the myriad of swamps and water holes that dot the landscape. Of course, you can see most of these in Akampa, Boki, or Obudu National Parks, but these are places that have been influenced by man in some way.

If you are thinking about what I am thinking and you would love to come see it for yourself or simply sympathize with nature and want to help her in some way, visit us at any time. Ozebue!

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