The Nigerian Federal government FG, is planning to privatize three national parks I’m the Country.
Ibrahim Goni, Conservator General of the National Park Service, invited the private sector to participate in the project while receiving two Land Cruiser trucks from African Nature Investors (ANI) at the service’s headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday.
The Federal government FG, has announced plans to partially privatize three of its national parks as part of attempts to maximize biodiversity protection in protected areas and make them into top tourist destinations.
Ibrahim Goni, the Conservator General of the National Park Service, addressed Wednesday at the service’s headquarters in Abuja after receiving two Land Cruiser trucks from African Nature Investors (ANI).
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“The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) is currently working with the National Park Service (NPS) to partially commercialize three of our national parks,” Goni stated.
“This is to contribute to the global agenda of attempting to engage NGOs in conservation activities, and I hope that with the designation of Cross River National Park, Kainji Lake National Park, and Gashaka-Gumti National Park, the process will be accelerated so that investors and entrepreneurs coming into this country will support the government in the not-too-distant future.”
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According to the Sources, he stated that commercialization would combat invasion by host communities since investors would improve the locals’ incomes. He asked governors to take an interest in the park’s conservation activities. In their respective states, of the NPS and its commercial sector stakeholders.
Brig Gen Olajide Laleye (retd.) of African Nature Investors (ANI) stated the cars were donated as part of the NPS’s technical support. He stated that with the NPS’s assistance, the organization had accomplished so much in conservation efforts in the Gashaka Gumti National Park and the Okumu National Park. Laleye also stated that ANI has been giving technical assistance to NPS since 2017 and that it will not quit in its efforts to safeguard Nigeria’s biodiversity.
