TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION IN BAYELSA STATE

In: WILBERFORCE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, Heft 1, S. 1-13

Abstract

This paper examined the linkage between traditional systems of environmental protection and climate change mitigation/adaptation in Bayelsa State. Based on a desk study, the paper interrogated some existing traditional/indigenous knowledge on environmental conservation and concluded that they contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. The paper notes that although the environmental practices were not purposely designed to deal with climate change, practices that controlled timber lumbering and pollution of water bodies, and also promoted land conservation, are in sync with modern strategies and methods of climate change mitigation and adaptation.