River State Forestry Commission and it homes rare chimpanzees,
gorillas and drill monkeys.
On Afi Mountain wild drill still survive, with other endangered
primates including the most endangered gorilla subspecies, the Cross
River gorilla. The rugged mass if (1400m) is a critical watershed for
dozens of communities.
Afi Mountain is listed as an IBA (Important Bird Area) for Nigeria and
hosts one of the largest migratory swallow roosts in Africa.
The forests on Afi are a barrier against the encroaching derived
savannah from the west and north. In 1993, Pandrillus started
community protection patro is using local hunters to discourage
shooting and trapping, an education programme in the 17 villages
surrounding the mountain, and brought the communities together as a
common interest group for the first time.
The mountain was then part of the Afi River Forest Reserve (383 sq
km), a production forest reserve for which logging concessions had
been issued.
Pandrillus community protection programme prevailed and made great
strides in controlling hunting, in particular developing popular
support for protection of "The Big Three" – gorilla, drill and
chimpanzee.
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