Primary plantations reserved for protection purposes e. Nigeria shares land borders with the republic of benin in the west, chad and cameroon in the east, and niger in the north. The pattern and characteristics of inter and intra regional. Challenges of sustainable forest management in ondo state. The parks make up about 3 percent of nigeria s total land area. Pdf communitybased forest resources management in nigeria. Nigerian states involve in timber cultivation and its.
Nigerian states involve in timber cultivation and its processing. Land use decree, forest administration and governance. The leading causes of forest clearance in nigeria includes. Mortality rate of trees between 1974 and 2004 at snr2, akure forest reserve, nigeria. The cross river national park is located in southeast nigeria. The pattern and characteristics of inter and intra. Among the forest products, timber is regarded as the major forest product in nigeria. However, the forest is known to produce many other products, which are used widely in many fields though their consumption and trade are not appreciated. Community based forest management system as a panacea. Sokponba forest reserve and to adopt it for sustainable forest management in many other forest reserves in nigeria. Forest regulation, 2051 1995 in exercise of the power conferred by section 72 of the forest act, 2049 1993, his majestys government has made the following rules. Few modern agencies can trace ancestry in a straight line of succession since 1908 when the first forestry department was created. Apart from timbers derived from the forest community, nigeria forests houses numerous nontimber forests products ntfps which provides food, medicine, aesthetics and most importantly income to sustain the livelihood for people living around and outside the forest communities. Nigeria approved national forest policy june 14th 2006.
Nigeria abstract this paper sets out to explore the effectiveness of forest conservation laws in nigeria. The four forest reserves represent 40% of the total number of the forest reserves and cover a land mass area of 99. Ncf partners anamelo on sustainable forest management in nigeria. Most of the vegetation is typical of the sudanian savanna although, because of human activity, some parts have become more like the sahel savanna. The dry season is accompanied by a dust laden airmass from the sahara desert, locally known as harmattan, or by its main name, the tropical continental ct airmass, while the rainy season is heavily influenced by an airmass originating from the south. When jim chapman was appointed a forest officer in nigeria in 1971 he applied to work in adamawa and set about. This group of products includes all biological materials other.
The loss of tropical moist forest is significant throughout west africa martin, 1991 but is particularly well advanced in nigeria. This research was carried out to determine the tree species composition, relative density and dominance, richness. Often, however, its manysided developmental role is appreciated insufficiently. Ngel nyaki forest reserve ngel nyaki is located towards the western escarpment of the mambilla plateau.
Biomass and land use carbon emissions data for nigeria tree cover threshold is used for defining the tree cover area. The forest zone of west africa, in the strict sense, covers all of liberia and sierra leone, most of guinea, the southern halves of cote divoire and nigeria, and parts of ghana, togo and guineabissau. Collectively they contain an abundant diversity of fauna like buffaloes, roan antelopes, chimpanzees, crocodiles, hippopotamuses, hyenas, giant forest hogs, lions and leopards, as well as flora. Nigeria is situated in the west african region and lies between longitudes 3 0 e and 15 0 e and latitudes 4 0 n and 14 0 n. Main tree found in nigeria there are several trees that are of agricultural value and contribute to the gross domestic product gdp of nigeria. Government tree tenure is through acquisition and maintenance of forest. The infantry, according to fda, is intended to get a complete data on liberia forest reserves, including sizes, wildlife and total values. Jul 17, 2017 in the recent decades, there has been growing interest in the contribution of nontimber forest products ntfps to livelihoods, development, and poverty alleviation among the rural populace. The specific objectives were to map the forest cover types of fgr in 1985, 1998, 2005, and. Kolade adeyoju department of forestry, university of ibadan the forest resources of nigeria abstract forestry offers challenging prospects, both for economic growth and social development. African forest plantations 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 1,400 a a t. Kenya, madagascar, nigeria and rwanda have lost more than 90 percent of their original closed forest.
Its coast lies on the gulf of guinea in the south and it borders lake chad to the northeast. It is in the southwestern part of chad basin national park, about 60 kilometres 37 mi southeast of maiduguri, the capital of borno state. Nigeria is well endowed with forest resources but the excessive exploitation of these forest resources is a source of concern and threat to the economic, social and environmental importance. Nigeria has eight national parks and game reserves spread throughout the country. The 1st national conference of the forest and forest products society held at the federal university of. Snailery, vegetable gardens, skills acquisition centres and numerous livelihood. Encroachment into forest reserve actually started around late 1970s and since then the government had been trying to stem its trend. The fate of a tropical rainforest in nigeria 119 table 1. Oluwa forest reserve is located in southwestern nigeria. Oba hills forest reserve, located in osun state of nigeria.
Introduction nontimber forest products ntfp consist of naturally grown stocks of forest resources which could be processed either for household consumption or for local and external trade by the forest users. Pdf sustainable forest management in a human dominated. Modeling volume from stump diameter of terminalia ivorensis. Timber or lumbering is predominant in areas with high rainfall, nigeria is one of those areas with high rainfall and numerous rain forest and is widely. Forestry and forest industries had played the role of a pacemaker with major forest products being the mainstay of the countrys favourable balance of payments in the past. The forestry research institute of nigeria frin has a mandate to conduct research into all aspects of forestry, forest products utilization, wildlife, watershed management, agroforestry, and the like. Hence, various forms of forest management tend to merge conservation. Assessing the impacts of tenure practices on forest. Forestry research institute of nigeria frin, national parks. For example, 75% includes only areas with more than 75% tree cover, whereas 10% includes all areas with more than 10% tree cover. Nigeria was once a onetime largest exporter of timber in west africa, and the major areas of production located in the rain forest areas such as.
Nigeria forest information and data according to the u. In early 1990s, government opened part of oluwa forest reserve for interested persons for cultivation. Monrovia forestry development authority fda managing director p. Urhonigbe forest reserve is constituted and gazetted. Multipleuse forest management in the humid tropics. The forest consists of a mixture of open woodland and sections of very dense vegetation of short trees about two metres high and thorny. In abidjan, the groups discussing themes 1 and 4 were merged. Nigeria, like the rest of west africa and other tropical lands, has only two seasons. The agricultural and forestry department call these trees the main trees of nigeria and some of the trees are cocoa, palm trees and tea. The problems of deforestation in nigerias national parks and forest reserves are.
Eighteen temporary sample plots, each of size 20m x 20m 0. Forest conversion, conservation and forestry in cross. Iita forest project is part of the renowned international institue of tropical agricultures natural resource management, and is located at iita international headquarters in ibadan, in the west of nigeria. The continued and sustained levels of round wood consumption in nigeria is indeed a threat to the forest estate and a source of deforestation. On the other hand, central africa with 44% of the land under forests is the most forested subregion. Democratic republic of the congo and nigeria and that 38. The sambisa forest is one of the few forests in north eastern nigeria where sparse vegetation is the norm. Find list of best forest management in nigeria with their name, address, contact phone number and other information on vconnect. Edumanom forest reserve, located in niger delta region of southeast nigeria. Pages in category forest reserves of nigeria the following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This has been prompted by the fact that communities living adjacent to forest reserves rely to a great extent on the ntfps for their livelihoods, and therefore any effort to conserve such resources should. The parks make up about 3 percent of nigerias total land area.
Pdf forest loss in different ecological zones of the niger delta. Oct 23, 2011 isa forest reserver, located in sw nigeria, covering 142 km oba hills forest reserve, located in osun state of nigeria. Communitybased forest resources management in nigeria. Case study of ngel nyaki forest reserve, mambilla plateau, taraba state, nigeria. World bank urges nigeria to protect forest the guardian. The forest resource base 11 the role of forests and trees in socioeconomic development forest resource depletion and degradation 17 the roots of unsustainable forest resource use 19 3. Nigeria has had forestry and naturalresource conservation laws since the. The okwangwo division the focus of this paper is km 2 in extent, comprising the former boshi, okwangwo and boshi extension forest reserves. Nontimber forest products and their contribution to. The forests of taraba and adamawa states, nigeria university of. It also includes inhabited enclaves within these forest. Consisting of two divisions, oban in the south and okwangwo in the north, it covers a total area of approximately 4000 km 2.
The iita forest reserve is one of the few remaining forested areas in western nigeria. In cross river state, the government had banned logging for over five years due to carbon credit economy on green economy yet the daily loss of primary forest is unprecedented. Oct 17, 2017 the call by the nigerian conservation foundation, ncf, for the restoration of nigerias forest cover to at least 25 per cent through the green recovery nigeria, grn, is beginning to gain. Local peoples perception of forest resources conservation in ekiti state, nigeria 4 two types of forest reserves. As a result, many farmers from various communities in southern nigeria migrated to the new area oluwa forest. Mike doryen has announced the conduct of the first national forest i in liberia. The nigerian lowland forests considered in this paper extend from the edge of the republic of benin to. The table depicts the major vegetation types from where the forest resources are. Forest conversion, conservation and forestry in cross river. Tree species diversity analysis of kogo forest reserve in northwestern nigeria bello, a. Ncf partners anamelo on sustainable forest management in.
It is probable that less than 10 per cent of the original forest cover remains in nigeria, although as elsewhere estimates vary greatly and adequate national resource surveys are lacking. Different types of forest tenure offer varying levels of. The sector had accounted for about 2% of the gross domestic products gdp and 8% of the agricultural value added over the last two decades. On the heels of president muhammadu buhari ratifying the paris agreement on climate change last week, the world bank has charged nigeria to protect its remaining rainforest in cross river state. A strategy for the forest sector in subsaharan africa. The call by the nigerian conservation foundation, ncf, for the restoration of nigerias forest cover to at least 25 per cent through the green recovery nigeria, grn, is beginning to gain. This study uses remote sensing to examine forest loss in the different forest types found in the niger delta of nigeria from. List of forest management providers in nigeria vconnect. It also shares a border with the selfdeclared, but internationally unrecognized state of ambazonia in the southeast. Economic benefits of nontimber forest products among.
A series of regression equations were all fitted to the data. Between 1990 and 2010, nigeria lost an average of 409,650 ha or 2. Three communities surrounding each forest reserve at a radius of about 5 km were randomly selected and 20. Mambilla plateau is the highest plateau in nigeria with the mean altitude of 1,524metres 5,000 feet above the sea. Spatial and temporal analysis of forest cover change in falgore. Afi river forest reserve, located in cross river state, nigeria. The respondents were randomly selected using the random number table generator in stata v, from list. The sambisa forest is a forest in borno state, northeast nigeria. Frins taxonomy section developed the nationally renowned forest herbarium ibadan fhi, the largest herbarium in nigeria with more than 100. As indicated in table 1, eight countries accounting for about 16% of the land area of africa has nearly 43% of the total african forests.
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