Cross River definition
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The Okwa Hills in the Okwangwo Division of Cross River National Park.
AMWS is currently the focus of an ambitious ecotourism drive by Cross River State Government that includes a plan for habituation of the gorillas at Afi for the purposes of tourism.
Intensive surveys (i.e. employing multiple teams of field workers and of three or more weeks in duration) are necessary due to the low density of gorillas typical of the region, steep terrain, and difficulties involved with detecting gorilla signs in the types of forest typical of the Cross River area.
Management of AMWS by Cross River State Forestry Commission currently receives support from a number of NGOs including Fauna and Flora International, the Wildlife Conservation Society, Pandrillus and the Nigerian Conservation Foundation.
It is hoped that the newly created community conservation area will be able to reduce such pressures whilst maintaining local support, and that Mbe will continue to link Afi Mountain with Cross River National Park and the larger block of gorilla habitat to the east.
Despite recommendations to the contrary, the Mbe Mountains were excluded from the newly established Cross River National Park in 1991 and subsequent attempts by the federal government to incorporate the land into the park were unsuccessful.
The highland ridges west of the currently known Boshi Extension gorilla locality in northern Okwangwo Division of Cross River National Park.
Here, gorillas occur in three areas, the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary, the Mbe Mountains, and the Okwangwo Division of Cross River National Park.
During workshops on the conservation of the Cross River Gorilla, potential benefits and costs from developing ecotourism were evaluated.
Given the distribution of and threats faced by Cross River Gorillas, a landscape-scale plan for their conservation is essential.