Climate Change: Stakeholders Inaugurate ABC Project To Improve Ecosystem

Stakeholders in environmental conservation have inaugurated the Agro-Biodiversity Conservation (ABC) project to reduce the effects of climate change on the ecosystem.
They spoke in Ibadan on Wednesday at an event to commemorate the 2022 GIS Day with the theme: “Biodiversity Conservation”.
Commenting, Dr Dotun Afolayan, the President, Nigerian Society for Conservation Biology (NSCB), said everyone should be responsible for protecting different biological resources which the nation was endowed with.
Afolayan is also an Assistant Director of Research at the National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB).
“We didn’t do anything to have the resources but the world is counting on us to ensure that these resources are not removed, wiped off or go into extinction.
“If we don’t do our bit of replanting trees, protection against over-exploitation usage of resources, conserving in a gene bank and conserving using technological tools.
“If you are not a manager, you will be a ‘degrader’ not doing anything, being nonchalant is doing something to the environment; because you are promoting things that are degrading the environment by doing nothing,” she said.
Also, the Chief Executive Officer, GIS Consult, Ibadan, Mr David Afolayan, said GIS Day 2022, is themed: “Biodiversity Conservation”, because plant and animal species were becoming extinct every year.
Afolayan said with the use of the Geographic Information System (GIS), it has become possible to map, monitor, model and conserve biodiversity for the present and future generations.
The GIS expert said one of the things recurring at COP 27 was that there had been several promises and minimal results.
He lamented that the little progress made on reversing the effect of climate change has been wound back.
“This is because of some realities that countries are facing due to the Russia and Ukraine War that has disrupted the availability of fuel and the food supply chain, among others.