{"id":87764,"date":"2024-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/?guid=faa11e81c32182c9071ae0cabbdb9f8d"},"modified":"2024-04-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T00:00:00","slug":"mangroves-best-carbon-storage-to-mitigate-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/mangroves-best-carbon-storage-to-mitigate-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangroves, best carbon storage to mitigate climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n Prof. Nenibarini Zabbey, Project Coordinator, Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP), says Mangroves are best sequesters of carbon which mitigate climate change.<\/p>\n
Zabbey spoke with newsmen on Friday in Abuja while showcasing HYPREP’s efforts in combating climate change in the country.<\/p>\n
According to him, mangrove system is crucial in addressing climate change.<\/p>\n
‘Our mangrove restoration project is the world’s largest in an oil degraded environment; we have environment vanguards provided with catalytic funds to plant mangrove seedlings.”<\/p>\n
He said that the mangrove system of restoring spillage areas was the best globally and five times better than tropical rainforest.<\/p>\n
‘HYPREP is committed to enhancing the capacity of the local people; we build the capacity of the local people which we refer to as environment vanguards.’<\/p>\n
Zabbey said that the cleaning up of Ogoni land comprised 2000 hectares of both the medium risk site and a complex high risk site oil degraded area.<\/p>\n
He said there was a pilot proj
\nect of 560 hectares in which the community people was fully involved in planting more mangroves.<\/p>\n
‘As part of our broad livelihood programme at the moment, we have also trained no fewer than 5,000 youth and women because we want to create a sustainable livelihood for them.<\/p>\n
‘We are at the same time, restoring the environment in order to resuscitate the traditional livelihoods of the people which is basically fishing and farming,’ he said. <\/p>\n
Source: News Agency of Nigeria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prof. Nenibarini Zabbey, Project Coordinator, Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP), says Mangroves are best sequesters of carbon which mitigate climate change.<\/p>\n
Zabbey spoke with newsmen on Friday in Abuja while showcasing HYPREP’s effo…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n