{"id":236562,"date":"2026-06-17T05:31:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-the-canopy-that-became-a-threat-calabars-ornamental-trees-turn-from-beauty-to-danger\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T05:31:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:31:55","slug":"nigeria-the-canopy-that-became-a-threat-calabars-ornamental-trees-turn-from-beauty-to-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-the-canopy-that-became-a-threat-calabars-ornamental-trees-turn-from-beauty-to-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: The Canopy That Became a Threat – Calabar’s Ornamental Trees Turn From Beauty to Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Arriving Calabar, the Cross River State capital, once meant entering a green cathedral. Now, it means dodging a death sentence.<\/p>\n

The ornamental trees lining Calabar’s roads were its proudest signature, a living archway of imported giants first introduced by Mr. Clement Ebri in the 1990s and expanded by Mr. Donald Duke in 1999. They cooled the tropics, charmed first-time visitors, and earned Calabar its reputation as Nigeria’s cleanest and most beautiful city. From an aerial view, the city…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Arriving Calabar, the Cross River State capital, once meant entering a green cathedral. Now, it means dodging a death sentence. The ornamental trees lining Calabar’s roads were its proudest signature, a living archway of imported giants first introduced by Mr. Clement Ebri in the 1990s and expanded by Mr. Donald Duke in 1999. They cooled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9290,54635,54634,20558,257,4687,393,20890,254,6791,10149,7101],"class_list":["post-236562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beauty","tag-calabars","tag-canopy","tag-danger","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-ornamental","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threat","tag-trees","tag-turn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}