The Okomu Forest Project

Citation

White L (1988) The Okomu Forest Project. Primate Conservation, 9, pp. 28-29. http://www.primate-sg.org/storage/pdf/Primate%20Conservation%209%201988_Part1.pdf

Abstract
First paragraph: In August 1985, the Bendel State Government constituted the Okomu Wildlife Sanctuary, a 7,000 ha area in the center of the Okomu State Forest Reserve, Bendel State, Nigeria (Bendel State Gazette No. 73, 1986). This reserve is one of the largest and least degraded in the country and covers a total of 108,000 ha. Sponsored by the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), the Okomu Forest Project (OFP) was launched in October 1987 by HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Under the auspices of the project, NCF employees and staff from the Forestry Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Bendel State, work together to study and manage the protected areas. The author, an NCF Consultant and Honorary Research Assistant in the Department of Biology, University College London, acts as the project coordinator. The following report, published in the first issue of the Okomu Forest Project Newsletter (April 1988), briefly describes the area and lists OFP's aims.

Journal
Primate Conservation: Volume 9