South-west Nigerian forests are rapidly disappearing due to illegal logging with trees being cut down before even having matured.
Deep in a forest in Nigeria's Ebute Ipare village, Egbontoluwa Marigi sizes up a tall mahogany tree, methodically cuts it down with his axe and machete and, as it falls with a crackling sound, surveys the forest for the next tree.
"During the time of our forefathers we had big trees, but sadly what we have now are just small trees and we don't even allow them to mature before we cut them," Mr Marigi said. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari told a COP15 meeting in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on May 9 that Nigeria had established a national forestry trust fund to help regenerate the country's forests. That may not be enough as the country loses forests at a faster pace.
With other loggers, they have raised money to hire a tugboat to pull the rafts through creeks and rivers from Ondo state to Lagos.
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