Wildlife Domestication as a panacea to sustainable forest conservation in Nigeria

Abstract

Nigeria is blessed with biological resources including wildlife resources. There are over 22,090 species of wild-animals, including insects and 889 species of bird. About 247 species of mammals have been identified in Nigeria, making the eight highest in Africa. These resources are being threatened on a continuous basis by quite a number of factors which are mainly human-induced.This paper attempts to review the various threat to wildlife resource in Nigeria and highlighted the achievements made so far on wildlife domestication. To achieve the federal government of Nigeria goals on enviromental sustainability, Federal states and local governments in Nigeria were advised to increased the funding of wildlife domestication projects as well as borrow a leave from the republli of benin's experience on wildlife domestication.