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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has promised to provide financial support through its biosphere reserve fund, to address issues of environmental challenges on the African continent.
Director-General of the Organisation, Audrey Azoulay, made the pledge on Monday at the 33rd session of the International Co-ordinating Council of the Man and the Biosphere Programme, MAB-ICC in Abuja.
Azoulay gave an assurance that that UNESCO’s projects on the Lake Chad basin would go a long way to restore the ecosystem which was fast experiencing degradation.
Meanwhile, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha who represented President Muhammadu Buhari at the event revealed that the Federal Government had embarked on a series of interventions targeted at protecting the ecosystem.
