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	Cross River State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		NG-CR Cross River is a coastal state in southeastern Nigeria, bordering Cameroon to the east.
		Its capital is at Calabar, and it is named for the Cross River, which passes through the state.
		The state was created in 1967 from part of the former Eastern Region, and was known as the 'South-Eastern State until 1976 when it adopted its present name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cross_River_State (144 words)

	Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nigeria's cultural heritage is woven from threads of history and diversity, legend and conquest.
		Nigeria is a vast country with a population of about 120 people covering about 923,768 sq.km of landmass, located wholly within the tropics.
		Nigeria offers a wide variety of tourist attractions such as extended and roomy river and ocean beaches ideal for swimming and other water sports, unique wildlife, vast tracts of unspoiled nature ranging from tropical forest, magnificent waterfalls, some new rapidly growing cities and climatic conditions in some parts particularly conducive to holidaying.
	www.nigeriaembassyusa.org /culture1.shtml (4997 words)

	Challenges to Village Institutuins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The forest communities of Old and New Ekuri of Cross River State, Nigeria found themselves trapped in backwardness, neglect, rural poverty and in social conditions that made them direct replica of 15th century communities in a 20th century Nigeria.
		We of the Ekuri Community Forestry Initiative in Nigeria, agree totally with the views of IUCN (the World Conservation Union) on communities and forest management, especially as we now approach the year 2000; and the need to redress the environmental wreckages of a disordered world.
		Cross River State Forestry Project (O.D.A assisted) 1994: A Strategy for Sustainable Development, Conservation and Management of the forests of Cross River State, Nigeria.
	www.earthwatch.org /europe/limbe/upch.html (2545 words)

	Science education in Nigeria
		Whether or not the same is true with secondary school students in the sciences in Southern Cross River State of Nigeria is the crucial question that this study was designed to answer.
		The research area was Southern Senatorial District of Cross River State, one of the 36 States in Nigeria.
		Cross River State is one of the six States in the South-South geo-political Zones in the country.
	www.ncsu.edu /ncsu/aern/seksiens.html (2674 words)

	Cross River -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		What is now Cross River state was part of the former Eastern region until 1967, when it became South-Eastern state; it received its present name in 1976.
		In 1987 the southwestern third of Cross River state became a new state called Akwa Ibom.
		The Nen River is the principal tributary of the Sungari River, which is itself a tributary of the Amur River.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9028002?tocId=9028002 (889 words)

	2000 Conservation Annual Report
		I didn’t know there are gorillas in Nigeria." Their response, however, does not surprise me since the gorillas inhabiting the border region of Nigeria and Cameroon have essentially been neglected since their first description in the early 1900’s and were thought to be extinct until their "rediscovery" in 1988.
		The Cross River gorilla’s critically endangered status is due to its small population (approximately150-200 individuals), which is fragmented into 5-6 subpopulations of 20-40 individuals each (Figure 2), making it the most rare of the gorilla subspecies and even more endangered than the well-known Mountain gorillas of the Virungas.
		The Cross River gorilla’s unique habitat (compared with western lowland gorillas) is characterized by a highly seasonal rainfall pattern, relatively high altitudes of 2,000 m or greater and distribution of herbs (the gorillas staple diet) in widely dispersed patches.
	www.colszoo.org /Conservation/2001/2000ann/18conrep.html (423 words)

	Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Between 70 and 80% of Nigeria's original forests have disappeared and nowadays the area of its territory occupied by forests is reduced to 12%, even if the entire country is located in the humid tropics.
		Cross River state is very rich in biodiversity.
		NGOCE -a coalition of Cross River conservation groups- is promoting activities for a sustainable use of the forests to the benefit of the local dwellers, as an alternative to the present depredation by foreign actors.
	www.nigerdeltacongress.com /narticles/nigeria.htm (421 words)

	Nigeria to Build 500-Megawatt Power Plant in Cross River State - OnlineNigeria.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A 500-megawatt power plant is to be built in Cross River State by the federal government as part of efforts to boost power supply in the country.
		Cross River State Governor Donald Duke told journalists yesterday that the state government was not in position and did not have the competence to go into construction of a power plant, hence the 500 megawatt plant by the Federal Government was a welcome development.
		According to him, the state has 67 electricity projects to be commissioned in the next one month.
	nm.onlinenigeria.com /templates/?a=3615&z=2 (291 words)

	Environment News Service ENS Latest Environmental Information Education Current Issues RSS
		Ministers of the environment from Nigeria and Cameroon agreed to protect the Cross River gorilla, whose survival is threatened by poaching as well as habitat fragmentation and loss.
		The Cross River gorilla population is composed of seven to nine small sub-populations in Afi Mountain, Mbe Mountains and Cross River National Park - Okwangwo Division in Nigeria, and in the Takamanda and Mone Forest Reserves and Mbulu Forest in Cameroon, all geographically separated from one another.
		Agriculture is encroaching on Cross River gorilla habitat, which is also shrinking due to logging and forest fires.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/sep2003/2003-09-17-04.asp (902 words)

	BGCI - Botanic Gardens - Establishment of the Calabar Botanic Garden and Conservation Centre,
		The garden is located on land owned by the Cross River State Forestry Commission, and will incorporate a nature trail, medicinal plant nursery, primate rehabilitation facilities and an environmental education centre in the new layout.
		The botanical gardens were initially established by the British colonial administration in the mid-1880's to introduce economic crops into Nigeria from other parts of the tropics and to cultivate indigenous plants that might be exported to other parts of the empire.
		The Iroko Foundation has been able to raise an initial amount of funding to initiate the project and at present, Cercopan, the Iroko Foundation and the Cross River State Forestry Commission are recruiting staff to commence the re-landscaping of the garden.
	www.bgci.org.uk /botanic_gardens/Establishment_Calabar_BG_Nigeria.html (667 words)

	RainForestCenter.org
		WEMPCO commenced construction of its factory in Ikom, Cross River State withoutplanning permission or environmental impact assessment.
		WEMPCO now uses local loggers to extract timber from community forest in flagrant disregard of the Cross River State policy for sustainable development, conservation and management of the forest.
		At the current rate of forest depletion Cross River's rainforest could be completely cleared by 2014.
	www.piratetv.net /rrdc/video.htm (254 words)

	Efik -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		people inhabiting the lower Cross River in Cross River state, Nigeria; their dialect of Efik-Ibibio (in the Benue-Congo branch of Niger-Congo languages) has become the literary language of all educated Efik-Ibibio speakers.
		The Efik, an offshoot of the Ibibio, migrated down the Cross River during the first half of the 17th century and founded Creek Town, Duke Town, and...
		The 60 Cross River languages are situated around the Cross River in southeastern Nigeria and westward toward the Niger Delta.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9032062?tocId=9032062 (419 words)

	Illegal Rainforest Logging in Cross River State, Nigeria
		However, it was discovered that illegal loggers from surrounding states of Cross River State were soon to lure some individuals of the rainforest communities into illegal logging.
		Dominic Kidzu stated that WEMPCO which started prospecting for wood in the state since 1992 has continued to operate in a most unsuitable manner and in contravention of extant forest laws and regulations.
		He stated that as soon as WEMPCO established its factory at Ikom Bridge head, there was lots of public out cry, both locally, nationally and internationally, because WEMPCO was perceived to have a bad track record particularly in Omo Forest Reserve in Ogun State.
	www.mongabay.com /external/nigeria-cross_river_state_logging.htm (1210 words)

	University of Calabar, Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This problem continued for months and could adversely be noticed throughout the time the students of University of Nigeria, Nsukka who were in their third (3) and fourth (4) years of studies were here in the Calabar Campus.
		University of Calabar started to ballot for accommodation for their students: some of whom got halls 1, 2 others who un-accommodated students were asked to move to hall four (4) which was then yet uncompleted without doors, windows, beds, taps, and as if to compound the problem located deep inside the bush.
		Coincidentally this period was the time Nigeria nationals were repatriated from Equatorial Guinea whose capital is Malabo.
	www.unicaledu.org /sug.htm (661 words)

	Project: NIGERIA: CROSS RIVER STATE COMMUNITY FORESTRY PROJECT (CRSCF)
		Cross River State contains the largest amount of Tropical High Forest remaining in Nigeria (0.85 million hectares), and 32% of the State is still forested (Forest Sector Strategy, 1994), although its quality and density varies across the State's three agro-ecological zones.
		This situation has been exacerbated by the creation of the Cross River National Park in 1991, which removed 355,700 ha of forest reserve (or 55% of the Tropical High Forest) from consideration for commercial logging and/or clearance for agriculture, and thereby put increased pressure on the remaining exploitable areas.
		The State's forest resources were mapped and inventoried (at a low intensity) and the project facilitated a series of studies on the timber sector, non-timber forest products, the socio-economic context, farming systems and the perceptions and requirements of communities living within the forestry environment.
	www.odi.org.uk /tropics/projects/3216.htm (445 words)

	Cross River
		Another serious situation is the cross border trade where hunters cross over to less protected forests in Cameroon to hunt and poach animals, which are then brought into Nigeria for sale.
		The Cross River National Park – like most other national parks in Nigeria and elsewhere in West Africa – is grossly hampered by lack of funds, so that many projects are not successfully executed without undue delays and frustrations.
		The members of the group have been engaged in primate surveys, notably Cross River gorilla surveys in the Okwangwo Division and the Mbe Mountains, and Preuss’s red colobus monkey surveys in the Ikpan Forest Block of the Oban Division.
	www.berggorilla.de /english/gjournal/texte/23crossr.html (1606 words)

	E-Nigeria - Maps - Cross River
		Cross River State is located in Nigeria's Delta region.It is bounded on the North by Benue State, on the South by Akwa Ibom State, on the East by Cameroun Repulic and on the West by Anambra and Imo States.
		The park represents the last sizeable area of intact rainforest in Nigeria and is internationally recognised as one of the world's most important sites for the conservation of biological diversity.
		Efik is very widely spoken in Cross River State because it used to be a language of trade and commerce in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
	www.e-nigeria.net /crossriv.html (356 words)

	ERM.COM > Nigeria: Cross River State Community Forestry Project. For the Department for International Development, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The poverty of these forest communities means that they face poor access to clean water and healthcare, low levels of education and few opportunities for formal employment.
		Building the capacity of communities in Cross River State to manage their forests and derive livelihood benefits; and
		Building the capacity of the Cross River State Forestry Commission (CRSFC) to support community forestry in partnership with other forest stakeholders.
	www.erm.com /ERM/SVC/ID.NSF/(Page_Name_Web)/CaseStudies_CrossRiver (453 words)

	ReliefWeb » Professional Resources » Vacancies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		CU’s programme in Nigeria is relatively small - with the potential to grow in terms of scale and scope.
		The organisation’s work in Nigeria began in 2001 and is based on participatory assessments undertaken with Partners in Cross River State.
		CU in Nigeria is gaining a solid comprehension of the development context of Cross River State in particular.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/res.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-69VMR2?OpenDocument (2006 words)

	The Challenge and Imperatives of conservation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This paper examines the experience of the CWD approach in the Okwangwo Division of the Cross River National Park, a tropical moist forest conservation project in southeast Nigeria.
		The Cross River National Park (CRNP) is one of five national parks established in 1991 by Federal Decree (Federal Government of Nigeria, 1991), bringing the national total to six.
		Sadly, this is yet to be the case in the Cross River National Park project.
	www.earthwatch.org /Europe/limbe/upt.html (4408 words)

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		Ekpe culture is shared among many groups in Nigeria and Cameroon, and this year the special attraction was a visit of Cuban Abakua musicians, whose traditions derive directly from those of the Calabar Ekpe.
		After publication of samples of Abakuá phrases from a commercially recorded album (Miller 2000), Nigerian members of the Cross River Ékpè society living in the USA informed me that they had recognized these texts as part of their own history.
		While in the Cross River region in 1847, Rev. H.M. Waddell described two Ékpè masked dancers wearing bells: “Two Egbo [Ékpè] runners in their harlequin costume entered the town to clear the streets.
	www.afrocubaweb.com /abakwa/ekpefestival.htm (973 words)

	Project: Community-based sustainable management of tropical forests in Cross River State, Nigeria
		Beneficiaries : Forest communities in the Cross River National Park Support Zone to the north and west of the Oban Division and to the west of the Okwangwo; Nigerian environmental NGOs based in Cross River State.
		Coordination : Cross River National Park Project Okwangwo Division - funded by DFID, EC and WWF/NCF.
		Cross River State Forestry Project - funded by DFID and CRS State Government.
	www.odi.org.uk /tropics/projects/2005.htm (297 words)

	African Conservation Foundation - Nigeria - Conservation Projects. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Their research objectives are three-fold; to facilitate participatory learning and action leading to sustained community benefits, to record and preserve indigenous knowledge through ethno-botanical inventories and to monitor and document deforestation in Cross River State, particularly in the north.
		to the study of all aspects of culture and environmental sciences in Nigeria, embracing interests in the fauna and flora, history, archaeology and geology, legends and customs, arts and crafts, sports and pastimes.
		Located in southeast Nigeria, it is in one of the most biologically productive regions in all of Africa.
	www.africanconservation.org /nigeria3.html (1260 words)

	GYTS - 2001 Factsheet - Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Nigeria- Cross River State GYTS includes data on prevalence of cigarette and other tobacco use as well as information on five determinants of tobacco use: access/availability and price, environmental tobacco smoke exposure (ETS), cessation, media and advertising, and school curriculum.
		The Nigeria- Cross River State GYTS was a school-based survey of students in Junior Secondary 1-3 and Senior Secondary 1-3, conducted in 2001.
		A two-stage cluster sample design was used to produce representative data for all of Cross River State.
	www.cdc.gov /Tobacco/global/GYTS/factsheets/2001/nigeria_factsheet.htm (629 words)

	RainForestCenter.org
		We are happy to notify you that in the last (over) seven months we have been campaigning against illegal logging and wanton forest destruction of the Cross River State forest estate, in the Cross River Basin of Nigeria.
		Donald Duke, Governor of Cross River State of Nigeria.
		This action was communicated to the people of Nigeria through radio and TV announcements (as well as through the print media) of His Excellency’s directives.
	www.piratetv.net /rrdc/press.htm (738 words)

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		River waters of the Ganga, Gandak and Gomti have shown the poison, with high mercury levels having been found in fish in two major metros -- Kolkata and Mumbai.
		The gathering of scientists, conservationists and environment ministers assessed the state of the planet's protected areas -- and in many cases the news was good.
		The United States, Mexico and Portugal have rates that are between 10 and 15 times higher, while Belgium, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, Hungary and France reach levels that are four to six times higher.
	www.unep.org /cpi/briefs/Brief19Sept03.doc (8702 words)

	Official Web Site for Cross River State Government
		Once again the Government of Cross River State has demonstrated its resolve to blaze the trial in the World of tourism and leisure.
		This is evident by the conception and ongoing implementation of the "City of Tinapa" project, whose ground-breaking ceremony took place Thursday, January, 15, 2005, at Adiabo in Calabar Municipality.
		The Tinapa vision is bold, exciting and insightful, highlighting the determination of Cross River State Government, under a Public Private Partnership, to deliver a project that will ensure high economic growth and prosperity for the people of Cross River State, and Nigeria at large.
	www.crossriverstate.com /tinapa.htm (448 words)

	Global Response History - Environmental Action & Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		CLOSURE OF WEMPCO WOOD OPERATION IN His Excellency, the Governor of Cross River State, Nigeria, Mr Donald Duke, has approved the closure of WEMPCO WOOD Company with immediate effect and has directed the company to close down all its forestry related activities in the state.
		WEMPCO which started prospecting for wood in the state since 1992 has continued to operate in a most unsuitable manner and in contravention of extant forest laws and regulations.
		Accordingly, WEMPCO has been given a period of 21 days with which to evacuate its plant, equipment and machinery from all forest reserves and or community forest in Cross River, Nigeria.
	www.globalresponse.org /history.php?record=1977 (428 words)

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