Background to the Forestry Legislation in Lagos Colony and Protectorate, 1897-1902

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Title:	Background to the Forestry Legislation in Lagos Colony and Protectorate, 1897-1902
Author:	Omosini, Olufemi
Year:	1978
Periodical:	Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria
Volume:	9
Issue:	3
Period:	December
Pages:	45-69
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Nigeria Great Britain
Subjects:	colonialism forestry History and Exploration Law, Human Rights and Violence Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Abstract:	This paper focuses attention on the Forestry Ordinance of 1901 in the then Colony and Protectorate of Lagos which was perhaps one of the first attempted legislation to open up the sylvan resources of south-western Nigeria to colonial control. It examines the economic background to the legislation, the reaction and responses of the indigenous community and of some interested groups in Britain and the final modifications which ultimately took the teeth out of the original proposal. - Notes, tab.