Bio-diversity

Project is designed to support a forest community to develop the capacity to create wealth through good forest management and promote sustainable livelihoods of Agoi Ekpo community.The lowland forest of Ukpon River provide valuable ecological services by controlling and buffering regional climate, By absorbing and storing excess carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fuels it helps to slow down the rate of global warming. Extensive conversion of the forest to non forest land cover resulted in changes in soil fertility and rainfall patterns that have affected human livelihoods and ecosystem productivity. In addition to habitat destruction, the forest is becoming increasingly fragmented leading to gradual loss of critical wildlife corridors that formerly linked forest blocks, while widespread illegal logging has resulted in rapid degradation of the surviving forests blocks. Project activities include; Establish project infrastructure, staff orientation, community mobilization, election of forest management committee (FMC), community facilitators (CF), assignment of roles and responsibilities, Environmental education (EE): development of EE materials for community, radio program recording and broadcast, Distribution of EE materials, training workshops on EE, workshop for FMC, CF NGOs, CBOs community members on forest management, stock inventory, environmental issues, natural resources management, agro forestry, and sustainable use of natural resources and project monitoring. Groups involved are the women as well as youths of the community.

Nigeria