Omo Forest Reserve

Omo Forestry Reserve has lots of natural vegetations. It helps you connect with earth and humanity. Pure, beautiful and natural habitation.

Great settlement in there for wood dealers. The forestry management is doing a good job of sustaining the habitat

So cool and easy to stay you can also carry your family and friends along to see the landscape

Nice place

There is need for strict monitoring of tree falling and replanting in this reserved area.......

Place where you can feel relaxed

Wow a beautiful relatively nature reserve- not to heard of but still stunning, we did a river tour down the nature reserve with a guide, we had fabulous weather (i am well aware the area gets a lot of rain) but the sun shinning through the rainforest was stunning.

It's a great place for biodiversity conservation and tourism.

The area is great 👍

It's was great there

It's a place where travelers can highlight to have some rest and ease there self before continuing on their journey along Ore, Benin and so on...

Been at Omo forest was an interesting experience, spending hours in the forest was something I never thought I would ever do, but I was found been on a speeding bike for 2hours plus . but it was an interesting experience

The environment is lovely

God is great look what was is in forest

Interacted with nature in a lovely way.....the green vegetations and streams that flows across the forest with wonderful farming settlements that brings out the beauty of nativity.

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Located in Ogun State, about 135km north-east of Lagos and some 20km from the coast, Omo Forest Reserve lies within a tropical lowland rainforest and it has the most complex and productive vegetation type in the country; estimated that it supports about 8000 species of plants.

The reserve’s terrain is undulating and elevation reaches about 300m on some rocky hills. The eastern border is formed by the Omo river which, with its many tributaries, drain the reserve.
Omo is contiguous with five other, highly degraded, Forest Reserves, the largest of which is Oluwa Forest Reserve to the east. The vegetation is mixed moist semi-evergreen rainforest.

Due to selective exploitation in the past, the forest is largely mature secondary, with pockets of primary forest along river courses and in other areas where log extraction is difficult. Average annual rainfall is over 2,000mm.

The large forestland is named after the Omo tree, which is indigenous to the area. The Omo river lies somewhere within the 132,000 hectares of land, which make up the forest reserve.

Within this expanse of land is a 460-hectare forest block, to the south of the confluence of the Omo River, which has its tributary in the Owena River. This 460 hectare block is constituted of a so-called ‘virgin’ forest which has been declared a Strict Nature Reserve (SNA) and a Biosphere Reserve by the government.

Erin Camp:

Located within the forest reserve is the Erin (elephant) Camp where visitors can lodge before setting out along one of the camp’s nature trails.

After relaxing and chatting, guests can retire into one of three basic but clean and screened wooden cabins, each of which is equipped with two beds covered by good mosquito nets.

Alternatively, guests can choose to sleep in their own tent or the ones provided by the camp management.

Camp in brief
– 6 Beds with pillows
– Mosquito nets
– Closed off bucket Shower
– Kitchen with stove
– Clean stored rainwater
– Campfire / bbq
– Benches and seating for 10 people
– Covered seating ares of great conservation value with over 200 species of tree, 125 species of bird and many mammal species including forest elephant, chimpanzee and white-throated guenon monkeys, all of which are seriously endangered.

With logging, poaching and uncontrolled farming threatening the reserve’s biodiversity, Pro-Natura International (Nigeria) has teamed up with other non-governmental organisations to ensure the survival of the Omo Forest ecosystem by education in schools and raising conservation awareness amongst the local community.

Beetle Hill

Beetle hill is a two and a half hour walk or 45 minute drive to the base followed by a 25 minute climb up the hill’s steep slopes is worthwhile for the fantastic views over the forest that you get at the top. The trip usually concludes with a picnic lunch either on route or back in J4.

A world mapped forest reserve but lost the main aim of the reserve. I enjoyed my self felt what nature means

Am presently in Omo forest

Very interesting, lovely and I strongly recommend patient to go medical check up on that hospital