Nigeria's mangrove ecosystem is said to be the largest in Africa and the third largest in the world spanning about 10,000 square kilometres, from Badagry in the West to Calabar in the South, an ...

More than one in six mangrove species worldwide are in danger of extinction due to coastal development and other factors, including climate change, logging and agriculture, according to the first ...

After two oil spills in 2007 and 2008 killed off thousands of acres of mangrove forests near the village of Bodo, Shell agreed to compensate the community, clean up the oil and replant. Mrs ...

He stated that; “Nigeria has extensive mangrove forests in the coastal region of the Niger Delta. That Mangrove is considered one of the most ecologically sensitive regions in the world.

Dr. Ishaq Salako, Minister of State for Environment in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, said that Nigeria, the third-largest country in the world in terms of the amount of mangrove trees, continues to ...

The study revealed that for Nigeria, Colombia, and Bangladesh, which are among the top 50 fossil fuel emitting countries in the world, mangroves alone mitigated more than 1 per cent of their ...

A group under the aegis ‘Khana Coastal Communities’ in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State has appealed to the Federal Ministry of Environment and the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project ...

Around 28 GAA pitches worth of mangrove land is lost every day in the Niger Delta due to oil pollution. Nearly 6,000 hectares of mangrove forests in the Niger Delta are lost to oil spills annually.

A decline in piracy has pushed criminals toward hostage-taking, creating a growing ransom economy in the ocean region from ...

Mangrove ecosystems provide homes for animals like birds, crabs, and fish.Many fish spend part of their life cycle in mangroves, says Dan Friess, professor at Tulane University in New Orleans and ...