The Niger Delta in Nigeria is the Home to 25 Million People!

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The Niger Delta in Nigeria!

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Niger Delta in Nigeria

The Niger Delta stretches to cover 20,000 square kilometres of the Atlantic Coast in southern Nigeria. It is the world's second largest delta and home to around 25 million people.

It consists of rivers, streams, estuaries, wetlands, and thousands of villages that are scattered throughout Africa's largest mangrove swamp.

Niger delta's ecosystem contains one of Earth's highest concentrations of biodiversity with numerous species of both flora and terrestrial and aquatic fauna that live both on land as in water. It is also the home of the world's largest diversity of butterflies.

Not far from its main city, Port Harcourt, the delta also holds some of the world's richest oil reserves in the vicinity of the main city Port Harcourt. This treasury makes Nigeria the world's seventh largest oil producer.

However, extensive oil production has caused widespread pollution in parts of the delta. The contamination is one of the challenges that face the Nigerian government.

Most of the labourers in the oil fields consist mainly of temporary migrant workers, while local people in the delta, who come from 40 different ethnic groups make their living from farming and fishing.

They have the lowest work wages in Nigeria. Many of them live below the poverty line. Moreover, violent rivalries between different warlords and ethnic groups frequently lead to outbreaks of violence.

The anticipated future climate changes including increases in sea levels and extreme weather events could lead to significantly increased flooding of the delta.

This will threaten the entire ecosystem, as the intrusion of seawater into the sources of fresh water would threaten the whole ecosystem, destroying the mangroves and seriously, affecting agriculture, fisheries, infrastructure and the livelihood of the local communities. Oil production can also be seriously affected.

To top it off, it is likely that the people of the region would become increasingly vulnerable to water-borne diseases such as malaria, dysentery and cholera.

At the end of this century might large parts of the delta being destroyed if nothing has been done to prevent the catastrophe; and that will force millions of people who get robbed of their basic income, to leave their homes and go elsewhere.

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