EFFECT OF GLOBAL WARMING ON BIODIVERSITY: NIGERIA’S EXPERIENCE

¹Mathew, B. A., ²Aboritoli, S., ³Olorundare, J., ⁴Okpe, Y. Y. & ⁵Mustapha, S.I.

^1&2 Department of  Integrated Science, Kogi State College of Education, Ankpa, Nigeria

 ^3&4 Department of Geography, Kogi State College of Education, Ankpa, Nigeria

 ⁵ Ministry of Educ. and Human Capacity Development, Kwara State, Ilorin

Email : mathewaledare44@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Disturbed by the plethora of factors that aggregate together to destroy the beauty of the biodiversity and generally the ecosystem and make it unhealthy owning to heating up of the surface; the paper discussed to an extent the resultant effects of global warming on Nigeria and related problems  and mitigating steps has been presented and similarly recommendations has been adduced which among others includes the Government of Nigeria should acknowledge the importance of developing a national response to climate change, and taking steps to build a governance structure and technologies   for adaptation and mitigate the attendant effects of global warming.

Keywords: Global warming, Biodiversity, climate change, Nigeria