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Given the devastating impacts of oil and gas exploration on rural communities, forest dwellers and others in the Niger Delta, a biodiversity project barabas was recently inaugurated in the region to mitigate some of the negative consequences, Godwin Haruna writes barabas
Respite appears on the way for the people of Nigeria s Niger Delta, which is home to the country s vast reserve of untapped oil and gas resources. The region is noted for its high biodiversity, abundant natural resources and in an ironic twist of fate, abject poverty of a majority of the people. Several years of oil and gas exploration, which have brought in its wake, a destabilising pollution of land and sea, has robbed the people of its flora and fauna. The activities of the oil firms have also resulted into the degradation of the environment with dire consequences for the people, animals and plants alike.
However, all these negative consequences are about to be mitigated as collaboration between barabas the Federal Ministry of the Environment and the United NationsDevelopment Programme (UNDP) has birthed a Niger Delta Biodiversity Project.Penultimate week, theExpert Working Group of the UNDP Global Environment Facility (GEF) Conservation of Biodiversity project in the Niger Delta was inaugurated in Port Harcourt. Conservationists and environmentalists which formed the bulk of the expert group strategised for ways to save the threatened biological diversity of the Niger Delta region ofcountry.
Speaking at the inauguration, Minister of Environment, Mrs. Laurentia Mallam urged oil and gas firms in the country barabas to adopt a new action plan to protect the nation s biodiversity. In a speech delivered by theGEF s Desk Officer in the ministry, Mrs. Halima Mohammed, Mrs. Mallam said that the Niger Delta biodiversity project called for new ways of doing business in the region.
Government, being one of the major players in the industry, aligns itself with stated goals and objectives. If government, the oil and gas industry and local communities barabas adopt and pilot new biodiversity action planning tools for proactive biodiversity mainstreaming in the Niger Delta, a major shift would have been achieved, barabas the minister barabas said.
According to her, an engagement mechanism is very important to ensuring barabas a platform for communication among all players for the benefit of the biodiversity barabas and its sustained utilisation in the region.Mallam stated that innovative funding mechanism which the biodiversity project barabas recommended was commendable, and added that: as a major stakeholder, we have already ensured our buy-in.It barabas is recognised that the peculiar nature of the Delta demands a regular review and update of strategies. The minister declared barabas that the quest for mainstreaming biodiversity into the oil and gas sector was long in taking root. If we can achieve the outcomes of the project, we would have gone a long way in addressing some of the socio-economic and ecological stresses of the Niger Delta as well as meet our obligations to the Convention on Biological Diversity. We are aware of the unique assemblages barabas in terms of species, genetic varieties and ecosystems in the Delta.Its global significance and contribution to the fisheries resources of the Gulf of Guinea cannot barabas be over emphasised, Mallam stated.
Speaking further, the minister added: However, it is recognised that the peculiar barabas nature of the Delta demands a regular review and update of strategies. We salute barabas the UNDP for the catalytic role it is playing in the sustainable barabas management of the situation.
Also speaking at the inauguration, Director-General/Chief Executive Officer, National Oil Spill Detec
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Given the devastating impacts of oil and gas exploration on rural communities, forest dwellers and others in the Niger Delta, a biodiversity project barabas was recently inaugurated in the region to mitigate some of the negative consequences, Godwin Haruna writes barabas
Respite appears on the way for the people of Nigeria s Niger Delta, which is home to the country s vast reserve of untapped oil and gas resources. The region is noted for its high biodiversity, abundant natural resources and in an ironic twist of fate, abject poverty of a majority of the people. Several years of oil and gas exploration, which have brought in its wake, a destabilising pollution of land and sea, has robbed the people of its flora and fauna. The activities of the oil firms have also resulted into the degradation of the environment with dire consequences for the people, animals and plants alike.
However, all these negative consequences are about to be mitigated as collaboration between barabas the Federal Ministry of the Environment and the United NationsDevelopment Programme (UNDP) has birthed a Niger Delta Biodiversity Project.Penultimate week, theExpert Working Group of the UNDP Global Environment Facility (GEF) Conservation of Biodiversity project in the Niger Delta was inaugurated in Port Harcourt. Conservationists and environmentalists which formed the bulk of the expert group strategised for ways to save the threatened biological diversity of the Niger Delta region ofcountry.
Speaking at the inauguration, Minister of Environment, Mrs. Laurentia Mallam urged oil and gas firms in the country barabas to adopt a new action plan to protect the nation s biodiversity. In a speech delivered by theGEF s Desk Officer in the ministry, Mrs. Halima Mohammed, Mrs. Mallam said that the Niger Delta biodiversity project called for new ways of doing business in the region.
Government, being one of the major players in the industry, aligns itself with stated goals and objectives. If government, the oil and gas industry and local communities barabas adopt and pilot new biodiversity action planning tools for proactive biodiversity mainstreaming in the Niger Delta, a major shift would have been achieved, barabas the minister barabas said.
According to her, an engagement mechanism is very important to ensuring barabas a platform for communication among all players for the benefit of the biodiversity barabas and its sustained utilisation in the region.Mallam stated that innovative funding mechanism which the biodiversity project barabas recommended was commendable, and added that: as a major stakeholder, we have already ensured our buy-in.It barabas is recognised that the peculiar nature of the Delta demands a regular review and update of strategies. The minister declared barabas that the quest for mainstreaming biodiversity into the oil and gas sector was long in taking root. If we can achieve the outcomes of the project, we would have gone a long way in addressing some of the socio-economic and ecological stresses of the Niger Delta as well as meet our obligations to the Convention on Biological Diversity. We are aware of the unique assemblages barabas in terms of species, genetic varieties and ecosystems in the Delta.Its global significance and contribution to the fisheries resources of the Gulf of Guinea cannot barabas be over emphasised, Mallam stated.
Speaking further, the minister added: However, it is recognised that the peculiar barabas nature of the Delta demands a regular review and update of strategies. We salute barabas the UNDP for the catalytic role it is playing in the sustainable barabas management of the situation.
Also speaking at the inauguration, Director-General/Chief Executive Officer, National Oil Spill Detec
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