Land Degradation

India will host the next global Conference on desertification, land degradation and drought from October 7 to 8, 2019 at the Vigyan Bhavan conference centre in New Delhi.  Monique Barbut, Executive Secretary, UNCCD Participants from 197 Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) will have access, for the first time, to a wealth of vital new scientific data, say ...

The Federal Government says it will reclaim all land lost to gully erosion and assist flood-prone communities in the country. Residents steer a dugout canoe past flooded houses following heavy rain in the Nigerian town of Lokoja, in Kogi State, on September 14, 2018. Photo credit: AFP / Sodiq Adelakun The information is in a statement issued by Mr AbdulGaniyu ...

The Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) says it planted 38,000 different species of trees on 180 hectares of land in eight local government areas of Gombe State in 2018. Tree planting Malam Mohammed Garba, the Project Coordinator, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gombe on Wednesday, January 2, 2019 that the World Bank assisted project of ...

The Senator representing Enugu North Senatorial District, Chukwuka Utazi, said on Thursday, December 27, 2018 that N40 million had been proposed in the 2019 budget for the control of erosion at Onuiyi-Nsukka in Enugu State. A gully erosion site Utazi, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at Nsukka, said the proposal was to ...

Kenya on Friday, December 21, 2018 launched a five-year plan aimed at transforming Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) into reliable economic hubs. Eugene Wamalwa Mr Eugene Wamalwa, Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Devolution and ASALS, said that the 2018-2022 strategic plan targeted livestock, energy, tourism, agriculture, trade and minerals sectors which, he said, were underexploited. “We want to address ...

The Conservator-General, National Park Service, Alhaji Ibrahim Goni, has called on state governors to emulate the Niger State Government’s effort in stopping further degradation of the environment. Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, Governor of Niger State Goni said this in a statement issued by his Media Assistant, Yakubu Zull, on Tuesday, December 18, 2018 in Abuja. He said that Gov. Abubakar ...

Major chocolate companies have failed to keep a promise they made a year ago to stop forests in West Africa being destroyed for cocoa production, a campaign group said on Friday, December 7, 2018. Companies from Mars to Hershey to Barry Callebaut joined the governments of Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana to launch the Cocoa and Forests Initiative last year, pledging ...

The Lagos State Government has urged residents to halt the destruction of soil in the state, for a better and safer environment. The Commissioner for the Environment, Mr Babatunde Durosinmi-Etti, said during the commemoration of the 2018 World Soil Day in Ikeja on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 that there was the need to find lasting solution to soil pollution. Durosinmi-Etti ...

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has called on residents of the southeast to imbibe the culture of tree planting to check windstorm and gully erosion in the zone. Mr Walson Ibarakumo, NEMA South-East Zonal Coordinator, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu, Enugu State on Wednesday, December 5, 2018. He advised ...

Conservator-General of the Service National Park Service, Alhaji Ibrahim Goni, says the service will soon embark on campaign against bush burning during the dry season. Goni made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday, November 30, 2018. According to him, the campaign has become necessary following the onset of the harmattan season, stressing that some herdsmen ...