Participants at an international conference on rivers and deltas in Africa, Wednesday said the management and challenges of ecosystem could be better addressed through integrated and multi-sectoral framework.
The conference with the theme, “Sustaining Ecosystem Services of Africa’s Rivers and Deltas”, was organised by a consortium of universities in the Niger Delta and hosted by the Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa.
The stakeholders called on the government to encourage research in ecosystem services for sustainable development of the Niger Delta.
The participants, who were drawn from the academia, government, non-governmental organisations and community representatives, said there had not been sufficient investment in the ecosystem services in the region to complement revenue from oil and gas.
The universities include the University of Port Harcourt;…
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