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Title: The Environmental Effect Of Fuel Wood Exploitation In Mubi North Local Government Area Of Adamawa State, Nigeria
Authors: V. Zirra Jummai
Year: 2024
Publication No: KJGSE-2024-37
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Issue: Volume 1, Number 2
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The study aimed at examining the adverse effects of fuel wood exploitations on the environment in Mubi North Local Government Area, of Adamawa State. .Five wards were randomly selected from the eleven wards of the local Government. The research surveyed the opinion of 100 respondents using structured questionnaire administered by convenience sampling. The findings of the study highlights fuel wood as the major source of the energy in the households, and households with the people greater than six in a house [>6] use more fuel wood than others, meanwhile, majority of the respondents are unemployed. Due to low income, most of the respondents rely wholly on fuel wood for households cooking which is cheaper and easily accessible. The study highlights fuel wood procurement as through family labor and sometimes buying from fuel wood vendors and showed vegetation changes due to deforestation leading to vegetation losses, soil erosion and loss of fauna habitats of insects/animals, climatic change and other environmental challenges and devastations. It highlights the ignorance of the respondents on the presence of forestry laws/ ordinances, climatic factors, rainfall regime, meteorological indices and other land degradations in the study area it is recommended that there is need for the introduction of an acceptable and accessible alternative technology for the preservation of fuel wood for domestic and commercial purpose. The alternative of this domestic energy sources include solar, biomass and wind energy. 


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