caa a22 4500 469025840 CHVBK 20180323132729.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00185095 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00185095 Osemeobo Gbadebo Federal Department of Forestry, POB 2495, Garki-Abuja, Nigeria aut Religious practices and biotic conservation in Nigeria: conflict or compromise? [Elektronische Daten] [Gbadebo Osemeobo] This study employed cross-sectional data derived in 1990-91 to consider the contributions of religious institutions practices to biotic conservation. The evidence indicates that religious practices were varied, mixed and positive towards modern trends in conservation. However, the enforcement of religious practices was voluntary and largely based on lines of weak resistance. The religious were unable to enforce their injunctions in the face of rural poverty and state laws. Based on the trend analysis, the African Traditional Religion tends to have negative impact on the diversity of biotic resources. Nevertheless, this conclusion appears weak and constrained by difficulties posed by multiple use of a biotic resource for food, souvenir, cash and traditional medicine; and great problems involved in isolating the sole factor for resource exploitation. It is on this basis that policy instruments must be employed to control and manage biotic resources to sustain their utilization within ecological limits. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 27/4(1992-08-01), 331-338 0343-2521 27:4<331 1992 27 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00185095 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00185095 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Osemeobo Gbadebo Federal Department of Forestry, POB 2495, Garki-Abuja, Nigeria aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 27/4(1992-08-01), 331-338 0343-2521 27:4<331 1992 27 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer