Lesson for Nigeria’s super rich as Gabon gets support to conserve 30% territory | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News ⬇️
Nigeria’s millionaires have been urged to emulate some of the world’s richest families like the founder of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos and founder of Walmart Inc., Ben Walmart who have entered into a financial arrangement to help the planet’s second-most forested nation, Gabon conserve 30 per cent of its natural capital. The Guardian learnt that the…
The Guardian learnt that the new deal with Gabon is backed by a partnership that includes The Nature Conservancy, Pew Charitable Trusts and Zomalab, which is the office of Ben and Lucy Ana Walton, the family that founded Walmart Inc. Under the agreement, known as Project Finance for Permanence, the central African nation will bring to 80,000 square kilometers the amount of forest under protection, 60,000 square kilometers of ocean and 19,000 square kilometers of rivers by 2030, the country said in a joint statement with its funders.
She said if the rich will want to live a long lasting legacy, they should help the country in addressing some of its environmental challenges, protect areas that should be protected by all means. “ People who plant trees are not the ones who seat under the trees. Life is a cycle, the planet exists by the interactions of all the environmental elements. For example, if our biodiversity is threatened, it will affect elements that we don’t even know because every ant has a role to play, flowers have roles to play and they all don’t germinate and produce fruits at the same time and God alone knows the reasons.
“ For instance, if you go to Cross River, we have very thick forest and the people even though their forest is rich, they are going through poverty and their livelihood and economy is low. Our rich men should invest in those communities; improve the livelihood of the Indigenous People in the rich forest. “
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