Biodiversity Preservation Center
Biodiversity Preservation Conservation (BPC) is an NGO in Southern Nigeria dedicated to conserving endangered wildlife species, creating awareness, and providing opportunities for people to understand and appreciate nature. Their mission is to build a sustainable future through conservation and education in Nigeria. BPC aims to bring people together and closer to nature regardless of gender, age, class, or religion. The organization does this by using its wildlife sanctuary and education center to preach biodiversity conservation in Akwa Ibom State and other areas of Nigeria as well. Biodiversity Preservation Conservation’s activities include tree planting, ecological field surveying, wildlife management, conservation education, anti-bushmeat campaigns, and climate change adaptation initiatives.
***Categories: Conservation, Climate, Education, Research, Communities
Nigerian Conservation Foundation
The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) is an NGO dedicated to environmental preservation and sustainable development in Nigeria. NCF holds a vision of “a Nigeria where people prosper while living in harmony with nature”. Through many conservation projects, the foundation has created unique nature conservation strategies that promote human wellbeing and ecosystem stability.
***Individuals, Organizations
Centre for Water and Environment Development
The Centre for Water and Environment Development (CWED) is a non-governmental organization that believes that the environment and water resources are essential to human livelihood and sustainable development. They focus on helping to limit human impacts on the continuous degradation of the environment and water resources that leads to the further decline of the living standards of a vast majority of the population, especially those in the developing world. Through their projects, CWED seeks to improve environmental and water resources to maintain a usable state for all sectors in Nigeria.
***Individuals, Communities, Scientists
The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development
The Centre for Environment Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) focuses on improving peoples’ traditional knowledge of biodiversity conservation, monitoring, documenting, and reporting human rights violations, and advocating for justice, particularly in the Niger Delta region. Their main focus is on women, rural areas, biodiversity conservation, health, and population, which cuts across all strata of society in terms of age, gender, and abilities. As an organization dedicated to the fight for environmental justice, the CEHRD works at the intersection of climate change, health, and human rights to improve the livelihoods of citizens, locally and nationally.
***Individuals, Communities, Women, Rural Areas
Women Environmental Programme
Women Environmental Programme (WEP) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization that aims to sensitize and raise the awareness of the general public on the impacts of climate change. They use a gender-focused perspective to integrate social issues into the climate conversation, and aim to achieve solutions that are effective and inclusive to both of these areas. They work to stimulate the sustainable management of natural resources, to incite positive change in the governance of the environment, and to educate women and youth.
***Individuals, Communities, Women, Youth
