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The Nigerian Mangrove and Wildlife Development Abere, S.A.; Ekeke, B.A.
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 2 No. 7 (2011): December 2011 - Special Issue
Publisher : Richtmann Publishing

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The Nigerian mangrove ecosystem is mostly fragmented deltaic formation located in the River Niger Delta.Occasionally what should have been continuous and uniform mangrove forest in the Delta Islands areinterrupted by beach Ridge Island forests sandwiched between the coastal beaches and the estuarinemangrove and island within the mangrove forests. The beach ridge forests typically contain lowland rainforestspecies. Some have large areas of high quality forests with high concentrations of biodiversity as in Andoniarea.