Nigeria, Others monitor deforestation with Mapping Technologies

Federal Ministry of Environment has said Nigeria is among 12 pioneering countries that leverage mapping technologies to show deforestation and onshore usage changes, portion integrating conservation information into nationalist readying frameworks.

The ministry’s manager of Forestry, Halima Bawa-Bwari, disclosed that during the Net-Zero Nature-Positive Inception Workshop, held yesterday, successful Abuja.

She explained that the efforts are astir protecting nature, securing livelihoods, promoting sustainable improvement and ensuring that aboriginal generations inherit a thriving earthy heritage.

The manager pledged that the ministry, with enactment from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and UNDP, has intensified efforts towards gathering a exemplary that demonstrates however clime enactment and quality conservation tin spell manus successful hand.

She said Nigeria’s committedness to a net-zero, nature-positive aboriginal is not conscionable aspirational; it is grounded successful action, from updating its recently submitted Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to bespeak much ambitious clime targets, and actively investing successful nature-based solutions that present some mitigation and adaptation benefits.

“In the realm of biodiversity conservation, Nigeria has made important strides. We are location to implicit 17 nationalist parks, 1,129 wood reserves, and galore crippled reserves, wildlife sanctuaries, and Ramsar sites, each playing a captious relation successful preserving our affluent ecosystems. We are moving to reconstruct degraded lands, support endangered species, and fortify the absorption of protected areas.

“We are besides embracing innovation, leveraging mapping technologies to show deforestation and onshore usage changes, portion integrating conservation information into nationalist readying frameworks. These efforts are not lone astir protecting nature, they are astir securing livelihoods, promoting sustainable development, and ensuring that aboriginal generations inherit a thriving earthy heritage”, she said.

Earlier, the UNDP nonmigratory typical successful Nigeria, Ms Elsie G. Attafuah, reiterated that the store was not lone to motorboat a project, but to ignite a question that reflects Nigeria’s bold commitments to execute Net Zero emissions by 2060 and to conserve 30 percent of its onshore and marine ecosystems by 2030.