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With a deteriorating forest ecosystem, it is one of Nigeria's top conservation priority places for the critically endangered Nigeria-Cameroun chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes ellioti). [ 9 ] [ 10 ] This animal is available in many forested areas of the Nigeria region, but it has gone into extinction locally in many areas over the last few decades.
Conservation biologists research and educate on the trends and process of biodiversity loss, species extinctions, and the negative effect these are having on our capabilities to sustain the well-being of human society. Conservation biologists work in the field and office, in government, universities, non-profit organizations and industry.
The origin of the society resulted from the emergence of the field as a distinct subject in the 1970s. The phrase conservation biology originated from a conference of ecologists and population biologists at the University of Michigan, that published the book "Conservation Biology" An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective [7] was highly influential internationally, eventually selling tens of ...
Post-Independence Conservation: Since Nigeria gained independence in 1960, the Akure Forest Reserve has stood as a beacon of biodiversity. Post-independence, the Nigerian government implemented protective measures like the National Forestry Policy in 1975, which directly impacted reserves like Akure. [ 13 ]
Non-invasive monitoring of the dhole is crucial for knowledge about its conservation status. Monitoring of wildlife populations is an important part of conservation because it allows managers to gather information about the status of threatened species and to measure the effectiveness of management strategies.
One coalition, the Mangrove Forest Conservation Society of Nigeria, established in 1995, has spread its vision of establishing peaceful and sustainable coexistence between regional rural development and mangrove ecosystems across numerous Niger Delta cities (such as Asaba, Benin, Calabar, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Uyo, and Yenegoa). [71]
Game has served as editor-in-chief of Conservation Letters, [3] [4] a journal of the Society for Conservation Biology the number one ranked journal (out of 177) in the category "Environmental Science: Nature and Landscape Conservation". [5]
Conservation Biology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, published by Wiley-Blackwell and established in May 1987. [1] It covers the science and practice of conserving Earth's biological diversity , including issues concerning any of the Earth's ecosystems or regions.