Oban Hills

They lie within the Oban Hills Division of the Cross River National Park.

The soils are highly vulnerable to leaching and erosion where stripped of plant cover.

[2] It is possible that at one time the region was home to more people, perhaps being depopulated due to its proximity to the slave trading center of Calabar, and that the forest may actually be fairly recent growth.

[3] A 1988 report said that the remaining patches of forest on mountainous slopes were being encroached upon for logging and farming.

[4] The Oban Hills Forest Reserve was made a part of the Cross River National Park in 1991.

Kwa Falls, along the Great Kwa River in Cross River State, Nigeria