Towards an effective cattle grazing and rearing legal framework: an imperative for environmental protection

Tolulope Ogboru, O. Adejonwo-Osho
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When scholars write about environmental degradation in their publications, they hardly mention cattle grazing and rearing as one of its causes. Nevertheless, this activity, which has impacted the environment adversely, is a direct cause of land degradation, threatens the resources and ecosystem’s services that biodiversity provides, and is a threat to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 15. Livestock pastoralism has intensified in Nigeria in recent times, leading to greater environmental concerns and conflicts over access to natural resources. A close scrutiny of Nigeria’s municipal laws shows the absence of any statute that provides for the protection of the environment from this economic activity except the recent anti-open grazing laws enacted by some states. This seems to account for the unsustainable management of cattle grazing lands among other factors. The recent conflicts, killings and destruction of properties between herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria is one of the consequences of ineffective management of access to natural resources (land) and an ineffective regulatory framework for addressing the environmental degradation resulting from unregulated grazing, which are both exacerbated by climate change. An effective cattle grazing legal framework, it is argued, is imperative to complement existing environmental laws in addressing the environmental challenges occasioned by cattle grazing and ongoing tensions. Key words : Nomadic Pastoralism, Pastoralist, Transhumance, Ranching, Grazing Reserve
建立有效的牧牛和饲养法律框架:环境保护势在必行
当学者在他们的出版物中写到环境退化时,他们几乎没有提到放牧和饲养牲畜是造成环境退化的原因之一。然而,这一活动对环境产生了不利影响,是土地退化的直接原因,威胁着生物多样性提供的资源和生态系统服务,并对可持续发展目标(SDG),特别是可持续发展目标15构成威胁。近年来,尼日利亚的畜牧业日益猖獗,导致了更大的环境问题和获取自然资源的冲突。仔细研究尼日利亚的市政法律就会发现,除了最近一些州颁布的反露天放牧法外,没有任何法规规定保护环境不受这种经济活动的影响。这似乎是导致放牧地管理不可持续的原因之一。尼日利亚牧民和农民之间最近发生的冲突、杀戮和财产破坏,是对获取自然资源(土地)的管理无效和解决无管制放牧造成的环境退化的监管框架无效的后果之一,而这两种情况都因气候变化而加剧。有人认为,有效的放牧法律框架是必要的,以补充现有的环境法,以解决放牧和持续紧张局势所带来的环境挑战。关键词:游牧、牧民、跨牧、牧场、放牧保护区
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