ABSTRACT
This chapter underlines Nigeria’s wetlands which remain neglected resulting in loss of its rich biodiversity, despite Nigeria being a signatory to various international conventions and having enacted various domestic laws and policies for regulation of wetlands. It identifies various challenges such as proper law, capacity building and lack of awareness, the top-down approach, poverty, urbanisation, flooding and erosion, etc. The chapter argues that Nigeria, despite being a signatory to the Ramsar convention, has no specific national law regulating the maintenance of wetlands, and the institutional framework for the management of the wetlands is also not adequate.
