Environment & Conservation

CEHRD team visited Bodo City Girls Secondary Schools environment club. The team makes quarterly visits to the different environment clubs inaugurated and running in select public schools in Gokana LGA, Rivers State to assess their knowledge on environmental management. CEHRD formed the club early 2017 and continues to build capacity of members to promote healthy environment.This is with support […]

Indigenes of Oporo-Ama community in Asari-Toru LGA and students of the University of Port Harcourt (Uniport), Rivers State participated in the City Nature Challenge 2019. At the end of the City Nature Challenge activities, where citizens participate globally in biodiversity and specie documentation; participants in Port Harcourt were able to increase it’s total number of observations

Representative from Bayelsa State Ministry of Environment speaking at a Stakeholders’ Interactive Session on Challenges faced by Environmental Regulators during Oil Spill Management organised by CEHRD with support from Embassy of the Netherlands in Nigeria

CEHRD actively participated during the public hearing on Rivers State Environmental Management and Protection bill held on 16th April 2019 at the Rivers State House of Assembly (RSHA).The passage of the bill and consequent enforcement by the Rivers State Government will, no doubt, strengthen activities of regulatory agencies and ensure stakeholders that are bent on

CEHRD had engagement with National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) and Department of Petroleum Resource (DPR), both in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on the planned CEHRD activities against artisanal refining and environmental pollution in Bayelsa State.

In her bid to discourage artisan refining in Niger Delta, the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) with support from The Embassy of Netherland has mounted billboards around selected cities in Rivers and Bayelsa States. The billboards with the inscriptions, “Say No to Artisan Refining, Our Environment is our Life” aim to put

CEHRD donated waste bins to Bodo City Girls Secondary School environment club. This was part of her activities to commemorate 2018 World Environment Day. In 2017, CEHRD, through its CORDAID project team, established the Bodo City Girls Secondary School Environment Club in Gokana LGA, and Community Secondary School, Biara environment club in Gokana LGA, Rivers

The Norwegian Ambassador led other dignitaries in Abuja to unveil CEHRD’s reports, Adrift Fortunes, and Communities’ Perceptions of Ogoni Clean-up Project. The reports were published after extensive research by two teams from the environment and conservation and the other from the governance and human rights. Every year, CEHRD conducts researches into issues affecting the environment,

A peace campaign/sensitization rally was organised by CEHRD to forestall violence during the implementation of the clean-up and restoration of Ogoni environment. The participating communities include; K-dere and Biara in Gokana Local Government Areas in Rivers State.