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The ecoregion has sustained a dense human [[population]] for [[Century|centuries]], and much of the original forest cover has been cleared for agriculture, forest plantations, and urban developments such as the [[Oil refinery|oil refineries]] of [[Port Harcourt]]. The few remaining enclaves of native forest include the Stubbs Creek Forest Reserve in [[Akwa Ibom]] together with some enclaves of sacred forest, which are continually disappearing as [[village]] life is eroded, and patches of riverine forest. There are forest reserves in [[Anambra]] and elsewhere but these last are mostly for the purpose of cultivating timber rather than preserving the original environment.
== Pollution ==
It was once a rich combination of tropical timberland and savanna forest covering low, moving slopes however today this is one of the most thickly populated areas of Africa and today a large portion of the backwoods has been eliminated and the region is presently grassland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About: Cross–Niger transition forests |url=https://dbpedia.org/page/Cross%E2%80%93Niger_transition_forests |access-date=2023-09-30 |website=dbpedia.org}}</ref>
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