Undercover Documentary: Are Chinese and Nigerians destroying Nigeria Forest?

Wood Logging is one of the illegal business activities that goes on in Nigeria's reserve rain forests.
This is an Investigative documentary showing the high level of exploitation of Nigeria forest reserve in Cross Rivers State.
illegal wood logging is massively taking place in the Afi rain forest reserve in Cross river state, and nothing is been done about it.
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[@DavidNkwa]

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[@taharka3897]

David it would be ok to cut the trees 🌳 if for every tree cut at least two or more is planted. Also it should be finished wood products exporting out of the country, then it would be feasible.

[@ananmai8700]

THAT is NOT cool, number 1, is illegal lodging, number 2, disclose their location, IF the government target them as the government done the illegal Oil, the miners would probability come for you. In the future NEVER give out the name of the State, has Nigerian Film one actor or actress, said "SOMETHING ARE BETTER LEFT UNSAID"

[@madubaym]

This is indeed so beautiful and an ongoing tragedy. We truly don't understand or value what we have until, God forbid, its gone.

[@goldenismonica1522]

This is extremely sad Humans don’t deserve this planet 🌍

[@JoyJoy_120]

You have done your part my brother. I am ashamed of our law makers. If they were planting 🌲 , but no new trees just cutting down the ones we have!

[@DavidNkwa]

It's pathetic Joy

[@lolaa8924]

This is actually very sad. Without participation from the locals, foreigners would find it difficult to take our natural resources. It's too bad they (or children) will have to deal with the negative impact of their choices. 😢

[@edidyable]

So sad

[@esheesolomon8434]

Your page deserve more followers baba you dey try

[@nsikakessien]

@David Nkwa you're doing well and your documentaries are top-notch. Keep the fire burning bro

[@DavidNkwa]

Thank you Nsikak, kindly help me share the videos

[@ucukaoma4551]

Another great documentary!

[@DavidNkwa]

Thank you. UC

[@patrickosuji3692]

Good job

[@user-vo8io9zk4g]

Poverty, ignorance and greed are a tragic combination. If these people continue to deplete that forest without a conservation plan, in the next couple of years, that forest will be gone and they'll suffer the consequences. They obviously think climate change affects only oyibo people. To put things in perspective, about 20 years ago, I told my community, Dema-Abbey in Bonny LGA, that if they continued felling the trees in our forest indiscriminately that we'll soon be in trouble. They sneered and called me names. Fast forward to 2022... The forest is gone, and those who asked me how they'll survive have all sold off their woodsawing machines and are now busy searching something else to do. Meanwhile, erosion is gradually taking over the community. They sold off what God blessed us with and was passed on to us by our ancestors for pittance. Out of greed, ignorance and immediate gratification, a few traded old off our tomorrow today. Now we are all battling with flood, heat, extinction of wild animals, etc. Our children will never see most of flora and fauna that were bequeathed to us by past generations. The same fate will befall these people if their government doesn't intervene to save them from themselves.

[@AfroXpress]

Wow this deserves to be on BBC.

[@DavidNkwa]

Thank you, kindly share on social lets reach more people. Thank you

[@AfroXpress]

@@DavidNkwa roger that sir😎😎😎😎

[@DavidNkwa]

@@AfroXpress Appreciate 🙏

[@gerald1495]

fr, this is so raw and high quality

[@DavidNkwa]

Thank you Gerald

[@cornflakesjackson9853]

No Wonder We Have Extreme Hot Weather...And Too Much Flood and No Way Water will Be Absorbed...And Drained....

[@6ixfigureincome]

Wow it’s really amazing Mr David we move

[@frankchika4459]

Thanks for this investigative report🙏

[@DavidNkwa]

Thank you Frank for watching

[@2esc2esc]

In the state of Victoria, Australia we currently log a tiny potion of the native forest it is all replanted a sustainable and renewable resource. The government and conservationists here are thinking they are doing the best thing for the environment are stopping native timber logging in 2030. We don't have enough plantation timber to fill our replacement needs with the loss of native logging meaning loss of more jobs and the collapse of small rural communities. Where is that timber coming from? We currently import nearly 6 billion dollars of raw timber each year and Interpol says we import approx 800 million of illegally harvested timber into Australia this total doesn't include all the imported processed timber with unknown origin. Australia's demand for timber is going to jump after 2030. The conservation movement in Australia doesn't realise the damage they are doing to the world through deforestation in other countries and pollution costs of long distance transportation for their desire to stop native timber logging in the state of Victoria, Australia.

[@DavidNkwa]

Well Said My Friend

[@hazriqrudeen2815]

Nice one david you are doing a great job

[@DavidNkwa]

Thank you

[@nsikakessien]

These guys are destroying this forest reserve. Indescrimate cutting down of trees without replanting should be greatly discouraged.

[@oparahugochukwu6548]

Keep it up

[@Angela-hm3xt]

All they do is export our raw materials at a very cheap price. These woods will be turned into furnitures and our people will buy them at very high price because they are made of quality materials. And the cycle continues. Stupid. It's sad and frustrating at the same time. This area could easily be a tourist attraction and more money can be made by leaving the trees alone. These are not just any trees. These are centuries old trees.

[@charlesking7331]

This is ancestorial inheritance that this people are selling off without replacing these trees. Those timbers prices are cheap in the forest, may be the cost of transportation is what makes it high in consumers market in Ibo land.

[@maryubong8424]

They are disturbing the forest, sooner or later the snakes will be leaving the bushes and coming to where the humans are living. It’s a shame that those trees are being cut down. I’m wondering who are they selling it to.

[@nonyagbo]

This IS INDEED SO SAD...SOOOO SAD

[@dzemuus]

Nigeria has so much to be seen.

[@DavidNkwa]

Yep

[@maryubong8424]

It’s so sad that the trees in Africa are being cut down and be sold to China. The African governments are not doing anything about it. Can someone tell me that any African countries would go to China and destroy their environment under any circumstances for business or not 🇱🇷

[@justiceopara3038]

It is a multi billion dollar business as u said, but it is not easy as to process and it is not illegal. Logging in Nigeria is a legal business these forests in cross River state like the BOKI FOREST is the largest forest reserve on the surface of the earth, and it spans till Cameron. deforestation going in in cross river state is normal as it server the local needs of timber dealers in Nigeria, for the purpose of building constructions. And the dealers as well export some species of wood abroad. But the Government designated forest reserves are fully secured and no logging activities are going on their. I base in cross river state and I visit this forest on weekly basis and I tell u this bushes all around the state has its advantages and disadvantages on the citizens of the state. We have forest encroachment on daily basis by farmer their by there is a massive waist of these trees, where they are being fell down and set ablaze by farmers to create an enabling environment for their Coco farms and palm plantations. These men are just doing their businesses so don't call it illegal because they did not smuggle them self into that forest they have timber Union spreaded all over the state and the see to this logging and regulate who is legible to cut.

[@DavidNkwa]

You are right, but unfortunately logging is going on the forest reserve zone, I was there myself, not a hearsay. For your information forest reserve has three zone, the out zone, the buffer zone, the main zone. The outter zone has already be deployed by farming and the buffer zones are already having this logging going on as we speak. It's the inner zone that properly still protected but not for long. Even in Bunchor, where logging is prohibited, logging still happens even stretches into the National park. So my dear friend am not reporting hearsay, I have facts, video fact. By the way, it's not everything we video that is uploaded many times.

[@eotlati1763]

What a waste !! why they don't do risk assessment first before attempt to cut it ? that tree must be over 200 years old now it is killed. What a shame. But where is the forest rangers, are they deaf cant they hear the sound of the chain saw machine, well why would they care they get their cut of the proceed so they don't care if the forest is turn into a desert. Very sad.

[@edemajuwon3511]

Sometimes, govt policy encourages this kind of thing. For example in Ondo state, the govt of late Akeredolu encouraged the indiscriminate felling of trees in the forest bcos of the revenue they get from it

[@jarodu5869]

April 10th 2023 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@akstrainingandconsultinglimite]

It being a while

[@petercleveronyenso5183]

But without cutting the trees how do we get planks for building

[@DavidNkwa]

Its a forest reserved. They are not supposed to cut it down

[@petercleveronyenso5183]

That Akwa mmiri na rubbish wood but it's usually beautiful when it's fresh

[@DavidNkwa]

hmm... it seems like you have experience in this business.

[@petercleveronyenso5183]

@@DavidNkwa yes bro I actually served my boss for seven years in the plank business before running my own business for four years before leaving Nigeria

[@petercleveronyenso5183]

David you also needs to visit afikpo in Ebonyi state their logging forest is even bigger than Calabar

[@derneuschwanstein5824]

Earth without humans = earth thriving! Humans without mother earth = humans perishing, I'd very much prefer the former!

[@DavidNkwa]

🤔 nice quote

[@akrikaakrika1474]

Ordinary sleepers 😂? You for tell me nah. I would've expressed the correct gear to you there. On a more serious note, this is demonstrative of how clueless Nigeria is letting greedy foreign bloodsuckers destroy our environment. It was heart-wrenching to watch these uninformed workers fell, in an instant, trees that probably took hundreds of years to grow to the level they are. Look at how they nonchalantly left the first tree they attempted to cut down just like that, after giving it all those gaping wounds, and quickly moved to another one. Unbelievable! Thanks for raising the awareness to this raping of our environment, for little or no gain.

[@DavidNkwa]

Well said my brother. Let share this video to reach more people

[@emmanuelochieke1645]

This is one good reason why Biāfrā must come as quickly as possible to stop this type of reckless destruction and preserve the environment.

[@DavidNkwa]

It has nothing to do with Biafra

[@emmanuelochieke1645]

@@DavidNkwa "It has nothing to do with Biāfrā." --David Nkwa What does it have to do with? Is there a "problem" here (in this illegal decimation of the remaining rainforest) that you want us to see? What do you suggest is the "solution" if any to this "problem," since you have obviously ruled out Biāfrā?

[@DavidNkwa]

@Emmanuel, this destruction is the handiworks of bad leaders corrupt politicians and visionless governors who are still in the same so-called Biafra land. So even if you have Biafra, wil the people automatically change over night? Before you begin to Agitate, you should atleast understand what and why you are agitating

[@user-vo8io9zk4g]

@@emmanuelochieke1645 Hehehehehe... Have you turned Afara-Ukwu where your leader, Nnamdi Kanu, comes from into a model community? Abia State nko? Biafra indeed!

[@mysteriesoflife540]

@@DavidNkwa it does. Kanu was right.

[@ananmai8700]

THAT is NOT cool, number 1, is illegal lodging, number 2, disclose their location, IF the government target them as the government done the illegal Oil, the miners would probability come for you. In the future NEVER give out the name of the State, has Nigerian Film one actor or actress, said "SOMETHING ARE BETTER LEFT UNSAID"

[@annagreenfieldwelcometocha3312]

The kind of wound we inflict on our selves for little money is unbearable and unbelievable No one in the world 🌎 give black people there resources but we take every opportunity to be more hungry and more needy than everyone else so we can do this kind of thing to our own Forrest Shameful and it hurts really hurts 😢😢😢😢😢

[@Boborasshanti]

David Nkwa must understand that there is nothing illegal going on here. This is their forest. Colonialism says that the resources belong to the present black face colonial government to plunder. Also, this idea of scarcity was taught to us by our oppressors. The land will always replenish its self. The seeds will grow where they fall. Great videos.

[@Boborasshanti]

At peace always. Africa is and always have been the world's only superpower. This is why it is under seige globally but we will bring back order. I am seeing it right now. When we have true sovereignty then things will be under law...peace

[@lemontadams3029]

Chinese gonna eat Africa up

[@davlid100]

What's illegal about what they are doing???

[@gerald1495]

it's a national park

[@misswogdaily2344]

It's discouraged by the government because it contributes to animal extinction and supposedly deforestation affects the earth's climate which alters/offsets a host of things related to global weather. You have to watch the whole video.😅😅

[@DavidNkwa]

Thank you

[@edemajuwon3511]

It's a Forest Reserve that's supposed to be protected and conserved. You don't just go there and cut down trees indiscriminately

[@phemmyo5146]

U sounded like an hypocrite. U asking how the business cost and den calling dos logger criminals. U looking for government abi wetin??? Ur matter tire me sef.

[@DavidNkwa]

Because you don't understand how Undercover works.

[@phemmyo5146]

@@DavidNkwa hmmmmm

[@littlemissrule8458]

Thanks for this video David. Please keep up the good work. 👏🏾

[@DavidNkwa]

Thanks brother for the support

[@littlemissrule8458]

@@DavidNkwa No worries but I’m more of a sister 😂.

[@DavidNkwa]

My bad. 🤦