Its Executive Director, Dr. Godwin Uyi Ojo, who spoke in Benin City at an event on the sidelines of the World Environmental Day, urged urgent development of a national 10-year Ecosystem Restoration Roadmap, set targets and timelines in consonance with the United Nations’ plans.
“For decades, scientific evidence shows that the impacts and pressures of our productive activities related to our addictive dependence on mining and fossil fuels extraction, extensive livestock farming, industrial agriculture, gigantic infrastructure, fisheries, forestry hence these harmful activities require a roll back.”
“Healthier ecosystems enhance richer biodiversity, yielding greater benefits such as more fertile soils, bigger yields of timber and fish. Man depend on biodiversity for food, water, energy, medicine, clothes, building and construction materials and enhanced capacity to store greenhouse gases from the atmosphere,” he said.
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