Boki residents overlook a tropical rainforest divided between a thriving green canopy and cleared land covered with tree stumps and a departing timber truck. There is a particular obscenity in cutting down a tree that took longer to grow than the logger has been alive. The chainsaw finishes in minutes. The truck leaves before nightfall. The money changes hands. Then everyone begins speaking about replanting, as though a seedling placed ceremonially into tired soil can immediately replace a living system that spent generations assembling itself. This is the violence unfolding across the rainforests of Boki and the wider Cross River territory. It is tempting to describe illegal logging as an environmental problem. That description is too polite. This is economic theft, ecological vandalism and intergenerational robbery performed under the sound of engines. Global Forest Watch estimates that Boki contained about 270,000 hectares of natural forest in 2020, covering roughly 93 percent of t...
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