Practices toward sustainable natural forest and environmental management

This paper examines practices toward Sustainable Natural Forest and Environmental Management. Thus the paper looks at the various environmental impact of natural forest deforestation, identify causes of environmental degradation and to describe practices that ensure sustainable management of natural forests.

The world agricultural practices geared toward environmental sustain ability as it is faced with various aspect of environmental degradation as a result of daily human activities. Forest environment whose benefits were known to include conservation of water cycle and climate, soil formation,nutrient recycling etc has attracted ever increasing demand for forest goods and for developmental purpose, which have led to very adverse- effect on the forest ecosystem. The results of deforestation are desert encroachment, environmental degradation climatic change, pollution and above all global warming. Ethno botanical survey and inventory, economic evaluation of forest products, creation of extractive forest reserves, adoption of community forestry management system, role of women in forest management, non- governmental organization and agro forestry practices are the practices highlighted toward sustainable natural forests and environmental management to mitigate global warming and climate change especially in the developing world in which Nigeria is not an exception. Exploitation of nation forest should be controlled with adequate monitoring and ecologically friendly logging technologies should be involved and sustainable forests management practices should be centered on the indigenous people's knowledge for the desired goal of biodiversity conservation to be achieved