Main tree found in nigeria there are several trees that are of agricultural value and contribute to the gross domestic product gdp of nigeria. Often, however, its manysided developmental role is appreciated insufficiently. 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. Ncf partners anamelo on sustainable forest management in. Location of high forest monitoring plots within the rainforest of southern nigeria location number of plots year of establishment years of remeasurement 1 omo sawmill sector 10 1985 1987 2 omo abeku sector 16 1985 1987,1997,2000 3 oban east 10 1987 1989. Primary plantations reserved for protection purposes e. The iita forest reserve is one of the few remaining forested areas in western nigeria. With a focus on five communities that the forest reserve cuts across, both primary and secondary data were derived and analysed using simple descriptive statistics. 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 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. It is in the southwestern part of chad basin national park, about 60 kilometres 37 mi southeast of maiduguri, the capital of borno state. A series of regression equations were all fitted to the data. 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. Oct 23, 2011 isa forest reserver, located in sw nigeria, covering 142 km oba hills forest reserve, located in osun state of nigeria.
The cross river national park is located in southeast nigeria. Nigeria approved national forest policy june 14th 2006. 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. Frins taxonomy section developed the nationally renowned forest herbarium ibadan fhi, the largest herbarium in nigeria with more than 100. Nigeria shares land borders with the republic of benin in the west, chad and cameroon in the east, and niger in the north.
The 1st national conference of the forest and forest products society held at the federal university of. Forestry research institute of nigeria frin, national parks. Modeling volume from stump diameter of terminalia ivorensis. Land use decree, forest administration and governance. 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.
The pattern and characteristics of inter and intra. The agricultural and forestry department call these trees the main trees of nigeria and some of the trees are cocoa, palm trees and tea. Ncf partners anamelo on sustainable forest management in nigeria. The four forest reserves represent 40% of the total number of the forest reserves and cover a land mass area of 99. 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.
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. Monrovia forestry development authority fda managing director p. 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. Among the forest products, timber is regarded as the major forest product in nigeria. The infantry, according to fda, is intended to get a complete data on liberia forest reserves, including sizes, wildlife and total values. Nigeria forest information and data according to the u. Eighteen temporary sample plots, each of size 20m x 20m 0. Compiling this assessment of biodiversity and tropical forests in nigeria involved the hard work and. 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. When jim chapman was appointed a forest officer in nigeria in 1971 he applied to work in adamawa and set about. In abidjan, the groups discussing themes 1 and 4 were merged. Pdf forest loss in different ecological zones of the niger delta. On the other hand, central africa with 44% of the land under forests is the most forested subregion. Ngel nyaki forest reserve ngel nyaki is located towards the western escarpment of the mambilla plateau.
Pdf despite the importance of the forest resources in tropical regions, forest. The parks make up about 3 percent of nigeria s total land area. For example, 75% includes only areas with more than 75% tree cover, whereas 10% includes all areas with more than 10% tree cover. The okwangwo division the focus of this paper is km 2 in extent, comprising the former boshi, okwangwo and boshi extension forest reserves. Urhonigbe forest reserve is constituted and gazetted. Mike doryen has announced the conduct of the first national forest i in liberia.
Spatial and temporal analysis of forest cover change in falgore. Economic benefits of nontimber forest products among. 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. The fate of a tropical rainforest in nigeria 119 table 1. The nigerian lowland forests considered in this paper extend from the edge of the republic of benin to. 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. 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. Forest conversion, conservation and forestry in cross. In early 1990s, government opened part of oluwa forest reserve for interested persons for cultivation. 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.
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. The vegetation types found in nigeria can be broadly classified into nine. Mambilla plateau is the highest plateau in nigeria with the mean altitude of 1,524metres 5,000 feet above the sea. 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. 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.
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. 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. 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. 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.
As a result, many farmers from various communities in southern nigeria migrated to the new area oluwa forest. The forests of taraba and adamawa states, nigeria university of. Local peoples perception of forest resources conservation in ekiti state, nigeria 4 two types of forest reserves. Assessing the impacts of tenure practices on forest. Different types of forest tenure offer varying levels of. The forest consists of a mixture of open woodland and sections of very dense vegetation of short trees about two metres high and thorny. Communitybased forest resources management in nigeria. Kenya, madagascar, nigeria and rwanda have lost more than 90 percent of their original closed forest. Nigerian states involve in timber cultivation and its. African forest plantations 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 1,400 a a t. The history of labour migration in nigeria dates back to four eras of slave trade between 1400 and 1900, when over 12 million slaves were exported from west, westcentral and eastern african countries nigeria inclusive to european colonies in the americas in the 15th century mberu, 2010. Forest conversion, conservation and forestry in cross river. Most of the vegetation is typical of the sudanian savanna although, because of human activity, some parts have become more like the sahel savanna.
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. Tree species diversity analysis of kogo forest reserve in northwestern nigeria bello, a. Sokponba forest reserve and to adopt it for sustainable forest management in many other forest reserves in nigeria. Nigeria, like the rest of west africa and other tropical lands, has only two seasons. Consisting of two divisions, oban in the south and okwangwo in the north, it covers a total area of approximately 4000 km 2. Democratic republic of the congo and nigeria and that 38.
A strategy for the forest sector in subsaharan africa. The problems of deforestation in nigerias national parks and forest reserves are. The respondents were randomly selected using the random number table generator in stata v, from list. Find list of best forest management in nigeria with their name, address, contact phone number and other information on vconnect.
Afi river forest reserve, located in cross river state, nigeria. Oba hills forest reserve, located in osun state of nigeria. This study uses remote sensing to examine forest loss in the different forest types found in the niger delta of nigeria from. The table depicts the major vegetation types from where the forest resources are.
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. Thus, this paper set as its objectives, to assess the impact of population pressure on the forest stock of gelegele reserve. Between 1990 and 2010, nigeria lost an average of 409,650 ha or 2. List of forest management providers in nigeria vconnect. 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. Government tree tenure is through acquisition and maintenance of forest. The pattern and characteristics of inter and intra regional. Few modern agencies can trace ancestry in a straight line of succession since 1908 when the first forestry department was created. Three communities surrounding each forest reserve at a radius of about 5 km were randomly selected and 20. The leading causes of forest clearance in nigeria includes. It also includes inhabited enclaves within these forest. Edumanom forest reserve, located in niger delta region of southeast nigeria.
Its coast lies on the gulf of guinea in the south and it borders lake chad to the northeast. Pages in category forest reserves of nigeria the following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. The continued and sustained levels of round wood consumption in nigeria is indeed a threat to the forest estate and a source of deforestation. The sambisa forest is a forest in borno state, northeast nigeria. Mortality rate of trees between 1974 and 2004 at snr2, akure forest reserve, nigeria. Snailery, vegetable gardens, skills acquisition centres and numerous livelihood. The specific objectives were to map the forest cover types of fgr in 1985, 1998, 2005, and. Encroachment into forest reserve actually started around late 1970s and since then the government had been trying to stem its trend.
World bank urges nigeria to protect forest the guardian. Land use decree, forest administration and governance crises. 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. Forestry research institute of nigeria taxonomy section.
Multipleuse forest management in the humid tropics. Nigeria has eight national parks and game reserves spread throughout the country. The parks make up about 3 percent of nigerias total land area. Nigeria abstract this paper sets out to explore the effectiveness of forest conservation laws in nigeria. Hence, various forms of forest management tend to merge conservation. The girth where the buttresses merge with the bole 4 m from the. Oluwa forest reserve is located in southwestern nigeria. It also shares a border with the selfdeclared, but internationally unrecognized state of ambazonia in the southeast. This research was carried out to determine the tree species composition, relative density and dominance, richness. Community based forest management system as a panacea. Pdf sustainable forest management in a human dominated. 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. Challenges of sustainable forest management in ondo state. Case study of ngel nyaki forest reserve, mambilla plateau, taraba state, nigeria.
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