SOLUTION ;Practicing Afforestation and Reforestation

The massive deforestation of Niger Delta region by oil search, exploration, transportation and other activities have caused a lot of problems for various people, animals and government agencies that rely on the forest resources for food, shelter and income. To solve this problem all Governmental, Non Governmental agencies, Oil companies and Individuals dwelling in the region should be encouraged to practice afforestation in areas where forest have not existed before and Reforestation in areas where the forest have been tampered with or destroyed by one activity or the other. Afforestation is planting seeds or trees to make a forest on land which has not been a forest recently, or which has never been a forest. Reforestation is the reestablishment of a forest after removal, for example from a timber harvest. Practicing afforestaion in the Niger Delta region will help to minimize many problems the region is facing environmentally and economically. Afforestation will help the region in many ways, first it will help correct the many problems deforestation have caused in the region, it will also be source of employment for people working in forest reserves and institutes, it will also help to checkmate erosion which is also affecting the region, it will also provide natural habitat for forest inhabitants and it will also be source of foreign exchange and tourism for the government.