NCF set to charge over 2000 youths on ecosystem restoration

Since the declaration of 2021 – 2030 as the decade of Ecosystem by the United Nationa General Assembly (UNGA),  there have been consistent efforts by the global community towards ecosystem restoration.
Ecosystem restoration is the practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment by active human intervention and action. Example of human intervention and actions employed towards ecosystem restoration include planting trees, cleaning up wetlands and river banks, or just leaving a swathe of natural land to recover. 
It also helped to combat climate change and prevent the mass extinction of species and end poverty.
In line with this, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) through the instrumentality of its advocacy lecture instituted in memory of its founder, late Chief Shafi Lawal Edu, will gather over 2000 youths to charge them on the need to take the lead in the campaign, process and activities leading to the restoration of the ecosystem.
These efforts, according Oladapo Soneye Head communications of NCFare aimed at saving a world that is in a dire need of ecosystem restoration and threatened by climate change.
The 19th edition of NCF’s annual lecture tagged Chief S.L. Edu Memorial Lecture with the theme: “Youth and Ecosystem Restoration” is a hybrid event scheduled to hold Thursday, August 12, 2021. 
The continental acclaimed youth activist, Ms. Simangele Msweli, Senior Manager, Youth Leadership Programme, African Wildlife Foundation will be the Guest Speaker, while Chief Philip Asiodu, President, Board of Trustees, NCF will chair the event. 
The lecture will also feature 3 Youth Conservationists, who were among the Top 100 Young African Conservation Leaders, spotlighted in 2020, Omobola Eko; Abubakar Muhammad & Nella Duke Ekpeyong.
Besides, the Chief S.L. Edu Memorial Lecture is an annual event organised by NCF in collaboration with the family of late Chief S.L. Edu and supported by Chevron Nigeria Limited. 
The lecture series aims at bringing environmental issues to the front burner of national discourse while articulating solutions through speakers from diverse backgrounds. 
The event will also serve to award scholarship grants to two PhD students whose research works are in the field of environmental sciences in any Nigerian universities which seek to promote research works in nature conservation, biodiversity preservation, environmental management and sustainable livelihood.