Category of Biodiversity related sites
Number
Comments
National Parks
7
Main reservoir of Nigeria’s biodiversity, but suffering from low funding and several management and technical challenges
Important Bird Areas
27
Identified as important biodiversity areas too. All National Parks have IBAS within them and 60% of Nigeria Ramsar sites are also IBAs
Ramsar Sites
11
Management plans have been developed for four of these sites (Apoi Creek, Lower Kaduna, Oguta Lake and Baturiya) but are yet to be implemented due to lack of funding. The national wetland policy is at draft stage and there are plans to designate four more sites (Chingurme, Ibom/Cross River estuary, Wawan Rafi Wetlands and Akassa coastal wetland.
World Heritage Sites
2
Forest Reserves
994
50% still maintain their FR status, while the remaining 50% have either been dereserved or have been encroached upon and converted to either farmlands or residential areas
Game Reserves ( State
Governments and a few
managed by communities)
32
60% under various levels of management
Biosphere Reserve
1
The only named Biosphere Reserve according to UNSECO is in Omo Forest Reserve, Ogun State, Nigeria
Sacred groves
N/A
Many in number and at varied level of
protection
Compiled by the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (2012)
1. Workshop to Review Draft NBSAP Indicators and Development of Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
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