ASSESMENT OF VEGETAL COVER OVER NIGER STATE AND ITS COMPLICATION

Abstract

ABSTRACT The increasing population in Nigeria and the various individual and governmental development processes accompanying it, are having serious environmental impacts on the natural eco-system. These impacts of negative tendencies which are either knowingly or unknowingly persistent portends severe problems to the general well-being of the middle belt zone which is now new found home for many displaced people from locations further north . .. This study therefore aims at examining how much vegetation density the State can boast of, and the extent of human activities particularly agriculture related on the available plant cover and the effect of the identified level of interference. Raw data used were sourced from previous field surveys conducted by the Geography department, derived data were computed and analysed as well as visits and observations carried out. Findings of the analysed work include identification of serious vegetation depletion at some locations already grappling with the consequences. Others are stable but stand the risk of being threatened. Solutions and strategies towards mitigating the identified problems are proffered accordingly.