Biodiversity in Africa: Potentials, Threats and Conservation

Dr. Sylvester IzahDepartment of Microbiology, Bayelsa Medical University Imgbi Road, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

• 1. An Overview of the potentials, threats, and conservation of biodiversity in Africa.- 2. Industrial Applications of Biodiversity Potentials in Africa.- 3. Botanical Gardens: A Reliable Tool for Documenting Sustainability Patterns in Vegetative Species.- 4. Food security: a pathway towards improved nutrition and biodiversity conservation.- 5. Benefits and threats of biodiversity conservation in Stubbs Creek Forest Reserve, Nigeria.- 6. Therapeutic Potentials of Wildlife Resources and Options for Conservation.- 7. Threats to African Arthropods and their Biodiversity Potentials on Food Security, Environmental Health, Criminal Investigation.- 8. Leaving no one behind: Impact of Soil Pollution on Biodiversity in the Global South - A Global Call For Action.- 9. Impacts of Chemicals Used in Agricultural Practices on Soil Microorganisms and Vegetation.- 10. Advantages and potential threats of agrochemicals on biodiversity conservation.- 11. Fish production and biodiversity conservation; an interplay for life sustenance.- 12. Impact of pharmaceutical compounds on the microbial ecology of surface water resources.- 13. Effects of Water Pollution on Biodiversity along the Coastal Regions.- 14. Impacts of Climate Change on Aquatic Biodiversity In Africa.- 15. Anthropogenic Restructuring of Fiddler Crabs (Ulca tangeri) Communities: A Solid Wastes Perspective.- 16. Aquatic biodiversity loss: Impacts of pollution and anthropogenic activities and strategies for conservation.- 17. Traditional Methods of Plant Conservation for Sustainable Utilization and Development.- 18. The Challenges and Conservation Strategies of Biodiversity: The role of Government and Non-Governmental Organization for Action and Results on the Ground.- 19. “Let Them Eat Their Declarations”: Interrogating Natural Resource-Rich States’ Inertia Toward Biodiversity Conservation Treaties in sub-Saharan Africa.- 20. Sacred Groves in the Global South: A Panacea for Sustainable Biodiversity Conservation.- 21. Forest conservation strategies in Africa: historical perspective, status and sustainable avenues for progress.- 22. Factors militating against biodiversity conservation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria: the way out.- 23. Challenges of biodiversity conservation in Africa: A case study of Sierra Leone.