 Our Honourable Tessa Ugo Deputy Chairman of the House Committee on Environment emphasised the need for a multifaceted approach to combat wildlife trade, highlighting the global obstacles of the issue and the need for street enforcement, community engagement and international cooperation. This news strengthens the biggest framework for engineering and combatting wildlife trafficking. It knows the conditions of existing deadlines and establishes more strategic guarantees for farmers, thereby setting up sufficient intervals to attend to our farmers. The aim is to dismantle the wildlife trafficking networks and reshort their supply chains, which will significantly deter the trade and protect the industry sheets and their habitats. For the long term, it is to promote inclusivity between state workers and the community. There is a need for adequate professionals for community engagement, public awareness, campaigns and local and parent initiatives. By promoting education, raising awareness and empowering local communities, public awareness and local initiatives, and by promoting education, raising awareness and becoming guidance in national resources. Now, the Minister of Environment Ballerabi Lawal and the Deputy Director of the Department of Forestry, Razak Adekwala, highlighted the challenges of outdated laws in promoting sustainable forest and biodiversity conservation. Certainly, of the policy, labour and institutional framework, is high-quarter to our national outreach, to backlink biodiversity laws, environmental challenges and climate change. The obesity population, coupled with transparency crime, particularly wildlife and forestry, has continued to mount pressure on natural resources. Although, nature has been dealt as a transit point for wildlife trafficking, we are not losing sight of such crime being perpetrated domestically. The failures of sustainable and legislation have proven to be inadequate and this explains why we are here today to subject the challenge on the outdated species, conservation and protection, being premature, to policy that. Oliver Stowe, a representative from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, criticises the current legal framework for not adequately addressing wildlife crime. He emphasised that the proposed bill would accelerate the fight against wildlife and protect endangered species. Consequently, pending the adoption of the bill, Nigerian law enforcement authorities cannot fully activate the provisions of the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime and co-operate effectively with their counterparts in countries of origin, transit and destination. The weaknesses of the current legal framework are exemplified in the minimal sentences handed down to wildlife crime perpetrators who have been prosecuted and convicted in the past year and a half, thanks in part to the seriousness of the Nigerian custom service. The low penalties in the current legal framework are such that they can be discouraging to the dedicated, intelligence-led investigations and prosecutions that have made these convictions possible. It is therefore an important milestone in Nigeria's efforts to combat wildlife and forest crime that we are gathered at this policy dialogue to review the endangered species, conservation and protection bill. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.