 We're glad to know you're still there and watching the break fast. We're happy that we're talking climate change now. Maybe you've not even talked about it in your locality, wherever you are, because it's in the change we do in our private corners that it will translate to something big for us as a country, Nigeria. We're continuing with climate change. Now we're looking at the impact on the economy. We talked a little bit about that when we're talking with Frankelia. Now we're being joined by the Acting Director of Technical Programs of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation in the person of Ade Dayo Memudu. Good morning and welcome to the program Ade Dayo. Hello, Ade Dayo. Can you hear me? Okay, so now, good morning. We were talking earlier with someone about these policies of government that have affected or making it harder for companies to thrive, policies on climate change. Right now we intend to look at the economy, how it affects the economy, all that. But let's begin with where your forte is, conservation in Nigeria. How have we fared so far? Thank you so much. It's my pleasure to be on this show this morning to share our thoughts and views on the happiness in the field of conservation work. In terms of conservation, I would say I would rank Nigeria very, I would call it very high because we have the necessary institutional, legal and policy frameworks to make it happen. And Nigeria has been the middle secretaries, a middle secretary out of a lot of global conventions, particularly that are targeted at enhancing biodiversity conservation and sustainable natural resource management to enhance the benefits to humanity and the planet Earth. Even though we all agree, we are on the right track under a room store improvement. But then we have the necessary frameworks to deal with the issue of biodiversity conservation and not the natural conservation foundation. We have spotted the gaps that government and we cannot do it. That is why as the foremost non-governmental organization, dedicated to sustainable natural resource management and biodiversity conservation issues in Nigeria and beyond, we have tried to collaborate with government and to foster a lasting relationship to enhance how we manage our natural resources and project Nigeria on the world conservation map. Tell us more about how you go about your activities. Let's have some clarity on how you go about your conservation activities. We have a strategic action plan that underpins our operations. First and foremost, we have a vision of Nigeria where we not only are at live well, but we equally prosper while living in harmony with nature. And this vision is driven by three mission statements, which is firstly to conserve the full rate of Nigeria's biodiversity and to promote actions that encourage sustainable natural resource management for the benefit of present and the future generations of Nigeria and also to advocate for actions that enhance waste management, that enhance agricultural pollution and that enhance what we can call how we adapt and mitigate the impacts of the climate change that is now threatening our very existence. And we do this by having through our four strategic pillars that we draw to actually drive our processes and programs, one of which is a species program. We realize that nearly about one billion species are on the verge of being lost forever and we have come up with a species program that will help us preserve some of these species in fairly. Second one is our space program that is Habitat. We have come up with a 30-year intervention program, which is Christian Green Republic Nigeria. You would all agree that Nigeria's forest cover is now much less than 10% and like what it was during independence when we had more than 30% of the total landmass of the country on the forest cover. So we have come up with this to actually roll out our programs, collaborate and partner with AgMinds to drive this process so that we can consciously return and gradually carry our Nigeria forest cover to at least 25% in the next 30 years as acknowledged by the Food and Agriculture Organization. Also, the third pillar program is the climate action. We have a program that is targeted at mobilizing people, mobilizing policies and enhancing our participation positively to enhance how we rise to the challenges posed by the climate crisis. And also, the last one is for the construction. Okay, I get you, Ms. Ayadele, but let me ask you two questions just so that everyone listening would... No, they can't touch message. We realize we can't do it. Hello? Yes. The last pillar of our strategic programs is partnerships. We reach out to AgMinds. We form strategic alliances, partnerships and collaborate with the government of every state, department agencies, corporate world, civil society organizations and the general public at large to combine in our policy. Thank you so much, Ms. Ayadele Bayo. We deliver a better, unsustainable empowerment for the benefit of humans at large. Thank you so much for giving us that clarity because it is important to understand fully what you do, but time will not allow us to go deeper into that. But I would love for us to answer these two questions so that those who are watching us, this information you're reeling out, will not be lost on them. One, by what you're saying, have we reduced the rate at which we fell trees in the country? Are we planting more trees? And two, since you talked about waste management, how are we faring with regards to recycling? How enlightened are Nigerians about it? And what are the mechanisms? Are we recycling our waste? I can't hear you. I can't hear you. Thank you, Mr. Appartments. We will approach this in two ways. One is to encourage afforestation that is tree planting, massive tree planting activities across the country, and also to encourage natural regeneration. We look at a frequently more of a natural regeneration because that is the ability of the forest resource to actually recover its own. But in terms of tree planting on our home, last year, we planted more than two million indigenous species of plant tree and the economic trees last year. And this year, we have started already to surpass this mark of three million and also to encourage our partners and promote, support them to actually do more because on our own, just like I said earlier, we can't do it on our own. We have to mobilize and encourage others to equally join in tree planting activities and as well setting aside sizeable portions of degraded landscapes for regeneration activities. And in terms of waste management, we are encouraging, you know, this year's team for the celebration of World Environment Day, is targeted at beating or rolling back many of plastic pollution. And we are encouraging, we are engaging with private individuals corporate entities to invest more in upcycling that is confession of these plastics into other usable items and products into recycling as well. We now have many recycling companies coming up, which is now an income spinning opportunity for Nigerians. If we are looking at sustainably bringing down the level of unemployment in the country, we encourage people to do that. And also to encourage the production companies on the production of not multiple use plastics so that when people use their plastics it's not just one of them, they throw it into the dustbins. Particularly our solid waste, where do they end up to? We encourage people, we step up our awareness and set certain programs to encourage people on the way we need to manage and sustainably reduce our waste impact. And that is why we have a policy that is targeted at reducing our waste from paper to what we use at home and also to minimize our next three wasted collection across the landscape. So we're on the right track and although the awareness is very low, that is why we are reaching out to people engaging more with stakeholders on the need to turn most of these waste to wealth and equally to see the enormous economic opportunities that are born there. So that if we are talking about restiveness, unemployment, the best way to go about that is to encourage people into more of neutral friendly and activities. And we are on the path towards circular economy whereby we bring up our back out waste and offer them to useful products and enhance green economy at all spheres of our life. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Adeda, your memudo. I'm glad that you rated the government high when it comes to fighting these menace of the climate change and all that. And when we know that, because we know that you are of the conservative society, I was going to ask you to explain to us the parameters you used to measure, that ratings that you give to them, but there's no time anymore. But I'd like to point to you in case you do not know that we had one of the biggest forests here in Nigeria around Bokeh local government in across the state. And the world was talking about it because there were few forests like that left in the world. And in fact, we have the cross river gorillas that are the only ones in the world. They are about like 250 right now and they don't exist anywhere else. But right now that we're talking as we talk right now, the forest is going because of illegal logging and all that. We've also seen videos of places like Yankari Game Reserve, because when you talk conservation, you talk about plants, you talk about animals. We've seen animals in places like Yankari going very hungry. Some of them like lions are eating grasses now because it can't find meat to eat. Animals in the zoo are going hungry. And when we talk conservation and these things are not put into perspective, maybe we will miss the mark. But since you have scored the government high, we do hope that things are being put in place that we are not seeing right now and positives will be yielding from these things that they are putting in place. But this is where we will have to wrap up. You can't answer those questions now, but we hope that there will be another opportunity, another time to answer the questions. We'd like to thank you for being a part of our show this morning. Magnatio Tujiri, thank you. Thank you. We were talking with Mr. Adeda Yo Memudu, Acting Director Technical Program, NCF. NCF means Nigeria Conservation Foundation. And we'll take a short break and when we return, we'll be talking in sports. Stay with us.