Bio-diversity

The project seeks to strengthening the capacity of rural communities to combat deforestation and biodiversity loss on the Obudu Plateau, Cross River). The rainforest of Cross River State are some of the richest forest on the African continent and are of worldwide importance as one of Africa s five biodiversity hotspots. The rainforests have been lost due largely to unsustainable logging and farming practices over time, over-harvesting of non-timber forest products, Infrastructure development, Inadequate and ineffective legal frameworks for forest governance at the community level, Poor research, Insecurity of land tenure among others. Objectives of the project are; To provide alternative means for sustainable livelihoods among the target communities to reduce over dependence on forests, to encourage and enhance sustainable natural resources management and to reduce deforestation. The project will undertake various activities to achieve its objective, including community mobilization and sensitization, awareness creation around conservation and biodiversity as well as dissemination of the environmental policy existing in Cross River State, participatory needs assessment, livelihoods projects implementation, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation, development and dissemination of Information, Education and Communication materials among others.

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