Friends of the Earth International, Civil Society Organisations, and the Africa Centre for Leadership Strategy and Development say the mangroves restoration initiative in Ogoni Land which is the largest restoration of oil degraded mangroves in the World, is primarily targeted at restoration of a clean Niger Delta.
The President, Friends of the Earth International, Hemmantha Withanage, told Journalists at an event to commemorate this year’s World Mangroves Day in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital that they embarked on planting symbolic Mangroves as part of their contribution to assist Local Communities restore their degraded Land.
The groups comprising Friends of the Earth International, Civil Society Organisations, and the Africa centre for Leadership Strategy and Development were in Bomu in Ogoni Land to plant symbolic Mangroves in support of the Mangroves Restoration Programme embarked upon by the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Projects as part of activities to mark the 2025 World Mangroves Day.
The project Coordinator, Prof Zabbey Nenibarini, explained that the
Mangroves Restoration Initiative, which is the largest restoration of oil degraded mangroves in the World, is about 95 per cent completed.
The Clean Environment Advocates also embarked on an inspection tour to some of the ogoni clean-up projects, which included water projects, the centre of excellence for environmental restoration , remediation sites, among others.
They described the conceptualisation of the centre of excellence for environmental restoration as top notch and world class, while expressing satisfaction with the level of progress made in the implementation of the clean-up projects in the last two years
The Friends of the Earth International promised to assist the Local Community in the fight against environmental pollution and remediate the pollution in the Niger Delta Region.
(Editor: Nkoli Omhoudu)
