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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Taiwo Adebayo

A Nigerian forest and its animals are under threat. Poachers have become rangers to protect both

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Sunday Abiodun, carrying a sword in one hand and balancing a musket over his other shoulder, cleared weeds on a footpath leading to a cluster of new trees.

Until recently, it had been a spot to grow cocoa, one of several plots that Abiodun and his fellow forest rangers destroyed after farmers cut down trees to make way for the crop used to make chocolate — driving away birds in the process.

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