Plant ecologist and researcher in Akwa Ibom State, Dr Richard Ita, has called for proper management of forests to tackle climate change issues in Nigeria.Ita, who spoke with South-South PUNCH ...

Nigeria's forest cover has been dwindling fast for decades. With one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, there are concerns about th. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

Nigeria’s biological and physical environments – in particular, its forests, inland waters and coastal waters – have inevitably been affected by its population growth. This rise in ...

Drones rangers and forest rangers both play important roles in securing Nigeria’s borders and forests, but they have different strengths and weakness­es that must be considered when deter ...

The rain forest ecosystem lies between latitudes 4⁰N and 9⁰N and extends from the coast to about 250km inland. Historical accounts also indicate that the country’s Nigeria has a rain forest ...

Minister of State for the Environment, Iziaq Salako, disclosed that Nigeria lost 86,700 hectares of tropical forest between 2010 and 2019.

Other small populations occur in West Africa in the forested regions of C te d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Guinea and Liberia. BREEDING: The breeding strategies for forest and savannah elephants ...

Nigeria’s forest cover is diminishing in extent and quality. But reliable data is scarce. For instance, one record indicates that Nigeria’s land mass is 910,770km² and forest occupies 110 ...