The Lagos Free Zone Company (LFZC) is partnering with the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) to protect and conserve sea turtles around its operational area in Lagos State.
LFZC is a free trade zone developer and management company responsible for the Lagos Free Zone.
In a statement on Monday, Oladapo Soneye, Communications Manager of NCF, said the project is aimed at educating and raising awareness both within and beyond the surrounding communities.
The statement reads, “This collaboration is part of the NCF’s Strategic Action Pillar 2021-2025, Pillar 2 – Saving Species in Peril. The objectives of this pillar include: To protect and recover indigenously imperiled and other significant species in all ecosystem types and critical habitats of Nigeria;
To expand options for rural outreach strategies, livelihood schemes and grassroot coordination in support of in-situ wildlife conservation across support zone communities of critical habitats;
“To provide information consistent with facts, trends and predictors of wildlife dynamics as guidelines for policies, recovery plans, decision-making and other sustainable investments in biodiversity management; and To foster interagency collaborations and partnership for the commemoration of relevant conservation anniversaries, administration of legal instruments, environmental legislation and conservation education.
Sea turtle is among NCF’s focal species determined to rescue. Others include pangolin, African forest elephant, Nigerian-Cameroon Chimpanzee, vultures, Cross River gorilla among others.”
