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Okomu Forest Reserve, Nigeria

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  1. Okomu Forest Reserve, Nigeria
Description

Closed-canopy tropical moist forest once covered large parts of this landscape near the Niger River Delta. Since the 1940s, however, logging, farming, and large-scale plantations have caused major losses of natural forest. In the middle of this increasingly degraded landscape, a fragment of relatively undisturbed rain forest remains.

In this series of Landsat images, plantations of oil palm and rubber trees appear in blocks of light green and magenta. Okomu National Park in Nigeria was designated in 1999 to protect a small population of forest elephants and several species of threatened primates within the Okomu Forest Reserve. Despite the large-scale rubber and oil palm plantation expansion in the northern half of the forest reserve and farmland in the southern half, Okomu National Park remains largely protected within the reserve and its dark green hue stands out against these surroundings.

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Location

Dec. 11, 1984, Landsat 5 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria

Dec. 11, 1984, Landsat 5 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria

Jan. 5, 1991, Landsat 4 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve, Nigeria

Jan. 5, 1991, Landsat 4 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve, Nigeria

Dec. 13, 1999, Landsat 7 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria

Dec. 13, 1999, Landsat 7 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria

Dec. 21, 2002, Landsat 7 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria

Dec. 21, 2002, Landsat 7 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria

Jan. 15, 2015, Landsat 8 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria

Jan. 15, 2015, Landsat 8 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria

Jan. 2, 2016, Landsat 8 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria

Jan. 2, 2016, Landsat 8 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria

Jan. 4, 2017, Landsat 8 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria

Jan. 4, 2017, Landsat 8 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria

Jan. 4, 2017, Landsat 8 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria

Jan. 4, 2017, Landsat 8 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria

Dec. 11, 1984, Landsat 5 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria
Jan. 5, 1991, Landsat 4 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve, Nigeria
Dec. 13, 1999, Landsat 7 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria
Dec. 21, 2002, Landsat 7 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria
Jan. 15, 2015, Landsat 8 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria
Jan. 2, 2016, Landsat 8 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria
Jan. 4, 2017, Landsat 8 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria
Jan. 4, 2017, Landsat 8 (path/row 190/56) — Okomu Forest Reserve and Okomu National Park, Nigeria

Okomu Forest Reserve, Nigeria Additional Imagery & Stories

Gilli Gilli
Gilli Gilli

Another forest reserve called Gilli Gilli lies directly south of Okomu. Gilli Gilli has experienced less deforestation than Okomu—limited to smaller a...

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Okomu
Okomu

In 1977, part of the Okomu Forest Reserve was given to the Federal Government for the Okomu Oil Palm Project. Between 1984 and 2011, the area of land ...

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References

References (Earthshot Overview/Parent Only)

Adisa, A., 2011, Okomu National Park, Edo State: CometoNigeria.com, accessed April 7, 2017, at http://www.cometonigeria.com/top-destinations/okomu-national-park/.

Ayanlade, A., 2016, Landuse change within Okomu and Gilli-Gilli Forest Reserves, southwestern Nigeria—its climatic and societal implications: Tropical Ecology, v. 57, no. 2, p. 193–203.

Ayanlade, A, and Drake, N., 2016, Forest loss in different ecological zones of the Niger Delta, Nigeria—evidence from remote sensing: GeoJournal, v. 81, no. 5, p. 717–735. doi:10.1007/s10708-015-9658-y.

CILSS, 2016, Landscapes of West Africa—A window on a changing world: Garretson, S. Dak., U.S. Geological Survey, EROS, 219 p., at https://eros.usgs.gov/westafrica/.

Nigeria National Parks, 2017, Okomu National Park: Nigeria National Parks, accessed April 7, 2017, at http://nigeriaparkservice.org/?p=152.

USGS, 2017, West Africa Atlas Details Efforts to Manage, Preserve Okomu Forest: USGS Image of the Week, accessed April 7, 2017, at https://eros.usgs.gov/image-of-the-week/west-africa-atlas-details-efforts-manage-preserve-okomu-forest.

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