Nigeria could lose its entire forest cover by 2052 if the current annual deforestation rate of 250,000 to 300,000 hectares continues, environmental activist Dr Nnimmo Bassey has warned.
Dr Bassey, the Executive Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), cautioned that the country’s dependence on an extractive economic model is accelerating environmental degradation and human insecurity. He urged governments to abandon this profit-driven development model and place local communities at the centre of environmental protection.
