A study on environmental implication of people's perception and attitude towards forest conservation in Ikono Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State-Nigeria

The purpose of this study is to investigate environmental implication of people's perception and attitude towards forest conservation in Ikono Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State. Positive attitude towards environmental resources such as forest will promote conservation and sustainability. In order to achieve the set objective of this study, hypothesis and tested statistically at 0.05 level of significance. Using Pearson product moment correlation analysis. The design used for the sampling was the survey research design while the sampling procedure used was the simple random sampling technique. A well validated 29-item questionnaire tagged “Environmental Implication of people's perception and attitude towards Forest Conservation’’ was designed using the four point likert scale model and administered to a simple size of three hundred (300) persons drawn proportionally from the selected geo-political wards”. From the analysis, it was found that the hypothesis was significantly related to forest conservation. Based on these, it was recommended that government should embark on an enlightenment campaign of the people, emphasis should be place on importance and benefits to be derived from forest resources. Awareness will help in creating positive attitude, motivation and commitment of the people to adopt environmental sound approach in seeking livelihood.