Environment

Keep your environment clean always – NES Urges Ogun Residents

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By Olatunji Idowu

As Nigeria Environmental Society NES, Abeokuta chapter, joins the rest of the world to celebrate the 2025 World Environment Day, it has called on residents of the state to put an end to plastic pollution for a cleaner, healthier, and safer environment.

The Chairman of the society, Alhaji Badmus Jamiu made the call in a statement in Abeokuta to mark the day.

According to him, although the usefulness of plastic cannot be overemphasised as it also serves as source of livelihood to millions, but when it got into the environment it usually would become inimical due to its untold environmental menace.

Alhaji Jamiu explained that  plastic pollution also constitute health risk particularly to aquatic life which would invariably return to the society, hence the need for residents to put an end to plastic pollution by properly managing plastic waste and embrace different government initiatives such as the Blue Box Programme championed by the Ogun State government.

While wishing residents of the state a hitch-free World Environment Day celebration, Alhaji Jamiu however used the opportunity to counsel residents of the state to give their environment a maximum attention, adding that, environment needs to be  treated with utmost care and respect.

The theme for this year was “Putting An End to Plastic Pollution”.

Environment

Preserve The Environment or Face Dire Consequences – Environmentalists Warn.

By Web News 753

Man’s physical environment is made up of land, air, water, plants, animals, shelter and natural resources.

A clean and healthy environment is important for people’s well-being.

This is however becoming difficult to achieve with increased human activities impacting negatively on the environment.

As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark this year’s environment day efforts should be focused on preserving biodiversity by reducing bush burning, deforestation, dumping of refuse in the streams and other activities causing the loss of some species of plants and animals.

Speaking on the need to conserve biodiversity, National Coordinator, Environment Ameliorators, Mr Olubunmi Sodipo, explained that the term refers to variations of life forms, animals, plants and micro-organisms.

He noted that all these contribute in no small measure to life and an attempt to take one out of the ecosystem could impact negatively on the others.

He said” If the loss in biodiversity was allowed to continue, it would affect food production and modern medicine which were synthesized from natural products.”

If for instance the agama agama lizard which people often do not take cognizance of is taken out of the ecosystems,there would be more spending on insecticides.

 The lizards naturally help in reducing insect load in the environment.

You might need therefore to reconsider before killing or destroying lizards around your house.

In the same vein, a Lagos based environmentalist, Mr Olawale Ajani want government to put stiffer penalty in place for offenders while enforcement of existing laws should be prioritized to make the environment cleaner and safer.

This he said because necessary to reduce the impact of climate change on the earth.

Anthonia Akanji