Source: https://www.nytimes.com/
In 2011, the United Nations Environment Program released a major report documenting pollution in Ogoniland, saying it could take 30 years to clean up. After two oil spills in 2007 and 2008 killed off thousands of acres of mangrove forests near the village of Bodo, Shell agreed to compensate the community, clean up the oil and replant. Mrs. Agbani spotted an opportunity. She stad looking for a place to establish a nursery. That’s how she came across Yaataa. She stad planning the project’s rollout there and bused in more than 100 female mangrove planters to celebrate its launch in late 2019. She couldn’t quite let go of Yaataah even though the young men physically attacked her. Like this, she worked for years for the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, set up in 1990 in response to the environmental destruction of the ecologically delicate area by multinational oil companies