FG, Foundation Sensitise Kano Stakeholders on Biodiversity Monitoring

Ahmad Sorondinki in Kano

The National Agency for Great Green Wall (NAGGW) in collaboration with the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, has entered into partnership with stakeholders in Kano State towards monitoring the restoration of mainstream biodiversity and conservation of the ecosystem.

The Director General of the agency, Yusuf Maina Bukar, who was represented by Deputy Director, Dr. Innocent Alenyi, at a one-day workshop in Kano, said the ecosystem must be restored to save the environment from degradation.

He blamed the current challenges facing farmers, such as drought, change in yields, and rain, as a result of human activities that tempered with the ecosystem.

To this end, the DG urged residents to complement their efforts of restoring the ecosystem through planting trees and avoiding indiscriminate felling of the existing trees.

According to him, the workshop would allow people to appreciate the role biodiversity monitoring plays in the restoration of trees and animals that play a vital role in the environment.

Earlier, the DG of the Foundation, Dr. Joseph Onoja, said the essence of the workshop is to sensitise the participants from the environmental sector on ways of restoring conservation policy through establishing a group that will monitor biodiversity.

He said that over the years, Nigeria has been losing a substantial number of trees and animal species that play pivotal roles in the restoration of land, which further leads to degradation, erosion, climate change, and other related environmental challenges.

“But through this monitoring and workshop for the stakeholders in the sector, we will be able to achieve the goal of ecosystem restoration. This can be done by mainstreaming biodiversity to plant the right trees at the right place and at the right time to play the ecological role they are meant to play.

“It is not a matter of planting trees anywhere or anyhow, no but to plant the trees and ensure that they are the natural vegetation needed to bring back the biodiversity. Those natural trees serve as food to some species that are very important to humans and the environment,” he said.