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July 3, 2019
The National Coordinator, Nigeria Erosion and WatershedManagement Project NEWMAP, Salisu Dahiru, has said that Nigeria ranks thehighest with deforestation rate in the world.
Dahiru said this in Benin, while delivering a lecture, entitled“managing land degradation in Nigeria: the challenges, action and remediation,”at the 10th Environmental Outreach Magazine public lecture and environmentalawards.
According to him, 24 billion tons of fertile soil are lost everyyear globally. Also, 7.3 million of hectares of forest are lost yearlyglobally.
He identified population pressure, deforestation, bush burning,overgrazing, agricultural depletion of soil nutrients through poor farming,inappropriate irrigation and indiscriminate mining as some the causes of landdegradation in Nigeria.
Dahiru said that NEWMAP had succeeded in reclaiming some landlost to degradation.
He said that inconsistency in policies, inadequate budgetary andunhealthy rivalry between environmental agencies adversely affected managementof degradation and deforestation in the country.