Government of Nigeria Drops Buffer Zone for Superhighway Project but More Must Be Done to Protect Communities and Wildlife
Thursday, February 16, 2017 - 15:31
in Earth & Climate
The Cross River State government's announcement yesterday to drop a 12-mile buffer around a proposed superhighway though one of Nigeria's last rainforests is still not enough to prevent the loss of important community forests and significant impacts to the region's wildlife if the project moves forward, according to WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and its campaign effort to reroute the project entirely.