Call for Help to Protect and Promote Nigeria's Sacred Trees, Sacred Groves and Sacred Forests

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Call for Help to Protect and Promote Nigeria's Sacred Trees, Sacred Groves and Sacred Forests

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju 

I want to initiate a movement to protect and promote Nigeria's sacred trees, sacred groves and sacred forests for their aesthetic, cultural, recreational, spiritual and biological significance.

I would appreciate any help with this task.

These sacred trees, groves and forests dramatize an understanding of the universe as shaped by a creator, demonstrate the beauty of nature, are inspiring to admire and house various species of wildlife.

These glorious places are in danger of extinction as land demand rises.

What can be done to protect them as a priceless legacy of how Nigerians ancestrally related with nature as fundamental to human existence?

I shall be sharing my explorations of these spaces and contributions to their protection and promotion through images, text and video, on various social media platforms

Great thanks

 

[Olasupo Laosebikan]

Yes! Thank you. I am looking forward to it

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[Bunmi fatoye-matory]

Hi, Toyin,

I’m interested in this. Thank you.

Bunmi

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[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Great thanks.

I shall reach out privately to all interested parties.

What I have achieved so far is that

1. I have initiated promotion of some of these places through scholarly and more general writing in various fora.

2. Im now adding text, images and video from my visits to some of these places.

3. I have begun working with some community leaders towards these goals, specifically in Agbahar-Otor in Niger Delta  although I shall be extending into Ughelli near Agbarha-Otor and communities near Ijebu-Ode, having made contacts in those locations.

4. At a more modest level, I have been paying monthly for the regular cleaning of the area round an iroko tree off Toyin Street in Lagos, behind St. Leos Catholic Church.

Im going to see the local govt and community leaders about taking this effort further through a plaque at the site describing the significance of the tree and a low wall  around it for protection and beautification.

I'm likely to create a dedicated online platform/s for this project.

Great thanks

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju 

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[Bunmi fatoye-matory]

Wow, that's wonderful!  It's a nation-wide project.  What would you like the group you are putting together to do?

Here's an idea.  Is it possible to ask our botanists to provide labels for the trees  that include their botanical names, their native names, and English names, and also give brief descriptions of their nature, history, longevity, etc.  Of course, the spiritual significance to the communities is another thing, but that would be the work of others.

I can see a book coming out of this.  You've done a lot.

Best,

Bunmi

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[Aanuoluwapo Sunday]

Hi,

I am interested in this. Thank you.

Kind regards,

Aanuoluwapo.

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