Conservation of Natural Vegetation in Nigeria

Ola-Adams, B. A.; Iyamabo, D. E.

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“…According to Adeyoju (2001), the total forest estate which stood at 10% of the country's land area in 1996 is now less that 6%. Ola Adams and Iyamabo (1977) estimated that about 26,000 ha of forest land are destroyed annually in the rainforest zone during the conversion of natural forests to plantation forests and other forms of land use. World Wildlife Fund estimated that over 90% of the natural vegetation had been cleared and over 350,000 ha of forest and natural vegetations are lost annually (WWF, 1989),…”

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Prospects for Post COVID-19 Era Optimisation of the Forest Products Industry in Nigeria

Ogunwusi¹,

Ibrahim²

2020

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COVID-19 pandemic has taught nations a number of lessons.. The lockdown by nations to slow the spread of the disease created a demand and supply shocks that led to drop in international trade and investment flows of 30% to 40% respectively. Nigeria is not immune from this development. The country also depends on importation of secondary raw materials for its industries. As a result of acute deforestation, the economic wood species in Nigeria have reduced significantly forcing the forest industries to rely on importation of raw materials such as Plywood, Medium and High Density Fibreboards, 0 OSR boards and a host of others as most of the particleboard and plymills have closed operation as a result of unavailability of prime wood species. The near absolute dependence on these raw materials led to disruption in the operation of the forest industries as a result of the lockdown in international trade occasioned by the CODID-19 pandemic. Production of most items in the sector has reduced significantly. For instance the sawmills operated at 28% of its installed capacity while the plymills and particleboard mills operated at below12% and capacity utilisation respectively.This development necessitates the need for adequate plans to be made for the post COVID-19 era optimisation of the forest industries in Nigeria. This can only be achieved through initiation of policy that will enthrone Public-Private-Sector-Partnership in sustainable production of industrial raw materials, most especially, roundwood in the country. The total availability of roundwood of 30cm in diameter and above is less than 300,000,000m 3. Thus, Nigeria may run out of industrial roundwood in the next 5 years. As a result, Nigeria must enthrone adequate policies to ensure sustenance of its ndustries most especially, those that have to do with industrial roundwood and wood based panels production. Also adequate policy is required to promote programmes such as wood reuse, environmental planting, development and industrial utilisation of bamboo, formation of forest industry clusters and wood products certification.

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Section: Challenges Of the Wood Products Industry In Nigeriamentioning

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Prospects for Post COVID-19 Era Optimisation of the Forest Products Industry in Nigeria

Ogunwusi¹,

Ibrahim²

2020

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“…From the fore-going, it is apparent that there is a need for conservation of the genetic resources of the species as well as the ecosystems. Extensive discussions of the need for conservation have been made by Charter (1968), Roche (1973), Okali (1975), Ola-Adams & Iyamabo (1977 and Soladoye & Ola-Adams (1990). A list of the threatened and endangered or rare species of Nigerian plants which require urgent conservation has been prepared by Gbile hw do1 (1978).…”

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Identification of Key Species for Conservation and Socio-Economic Development

1993

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What Constitutes a Key Species?(by John H. Lawton) 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The ecological definition of a key species 4.3 Towards a broader and more rigorous measure of key species: the concept of organisms as ecosystem engineers 4.4 Application to conservation 4.5 The problem of ecological stability 4.6 Other considerations 4.7 References 5. Nitrogen Fixing Species (by A.D. Bradshaw) 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Nitrogen as a critical element in ecosystems 5.3 Restoration of the nitrogen capital in soils 5.4 Conclusions 5.5 References 6. Conservation Strategies: an Agro-Ecologist's Viewpoint (by P. S. Ramakrishnan) 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Agro-ecosystem concept and conservation 6.2.1 Lesser-known plants of food value 6.2.2 Shifting agriculture in north-eastern India -a case study 6.3 Rainforest -a critical ecosystem 6.4 The human factor and the biosphere concept 6.5 Conclusion 6.6 References PART II Appendix A Key Species of Grenada (by G. Marcelle & J. de Vere Pitt) A.1 Grenada's vital statistics 61 A.2 Introduction A.3 List of ecological & economic species A.4 Brief species details A.5 Bibliography Appendix B Key Species for Conservation and Economic Development in New Zealand (by T. R. Partridge) B.1 Summary 89 B.2 'Key' ecological and socio-economic species in New Zealand B.2.1 Framework and overview B.3 List of key ecological and socio-economic plant species in New Zealand B.3.A Indigenous species B.3.B Adventive species B.4 Acknowledgments Appendix C Some Key Species of the Nigerian Flora (by M. O. Soladoye & O. Oni) C.1 Introduction 101 C.2 List of socio-economic/ecological key species C.3 References

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