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The Niger Delta swamp forests is a tropical moist forest ecoregion in southern Nigeria. It consists of freshwater swamp forests in the Niger Delta of the Niger River. This swamp forest is the second largest in Africa after the Congolian swamp forests. [1][2][3][4] Although there are large cities just outside the ecoregion, the area has been ...
Conservation. Conservation status. critical/endangered. The Nigerian lowland forests, also known as the Nigerian rainforest, are tropical moist forest ecoregion in southwestern Nigeria and southeastern Benin. The ecoregion is densely populated and home to several large cities, including Lagos, Ibadan, and Benin City.
The Niger delta basin is one of the largest subaerial basins in Africa. It has a subaerial area of about 75,000 km 2, a total area of 300,000 km 2, and a sediment fill of 500,000 km 3. [1] The sediment fill has a depth between 9–12 km. [2] It is composed of several different geologic formations that indicate how this basin could have formed ...
The Ikogosi Warm Springs is a tourist attraction located at Ikogosi, a town in Ekiti State, southwestern Nigeria. [ 1 ] Flowing abreast the warm spring is another cold spring which meets the warm spring at a confluence, each maintaining its thermal properties. [ 2 ] These attributes make the spring a tourist attraction in Nigeria. [ 3 ]
The Bangweulu Swamps, larger than the lake, extend from the north-west clockwise around to the south. The main part covers an area of roughly 120 km by 75 km and they are normally not less than 9,000 km 2. [4] [5] The swamps act as a check on annual flooding downstream in the Luapula by releasing water slowly through many lagoons and channels.
Considered one of the most ecologically sensitive regions in the world, the Niger Delta mangrove forest is situated within a deltaic depositional environment. These mangrove forests serve a critical role in regional ecological and landscape composition, and support subsistence gathering practices, and market-based income opportunities.
Wildlife of Nigeria. Black-headed heron. The wildlife of Nigeria consists of the flora and fauna of this country in West Africa. Nigeria has a wide variety of habitats, ranging from mangrove swamps and tropical rainforest to savanna with scattered clumps of trees. About 290 mammal species and 940 bird species have been recorded in the country.
Climate change in Nigeria. Satellite image of Lake Chad, showing it shrinking between 1984 and 2018. Climate Change in Nigeria is evident from temperature increase, rainfall variability (increasing in coastal areas and decline in continental areas). It is also reflected in drought, desertification, rising sea levels, erosion, floods ...