2. Promoting Biodiversity Conservation
Our biodiversity conservation programme seeks to create economic incentives for conservation by adding value to natural resources. Through a variety of long-term conservation projects, from small scale school/community tree plating to sponsored biodiversity monitoring plots, our goal is not only the understanding of African forest biology and ecology, but to provide data on the relative abundance of econoimiunically value species. This date helps us to decide which species to put into production and which to protect or cultivate, as well as the right policy mix and regulatory mechanisms to facilitate the emergence of a local productive sector. We hope that these measures will create a countermeasure to reduces the anthropogenic pressure on forest. We look forward to international partners who would be interested on the dynamics of the tropical forest of the Niger Delta Region, as the project will provide employment for local participants, while date from it are fed back to national policy and community livelihood activities.