Sentences with phrase «grazing reserve»

The reconstitution of the grazing reserve management committee, was in the interest of all and not intended to harm anyone or group, Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, said on Wednesday.

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That is why we are seriously advocating for cattle ranches instead of grazing reserve because the land is no more there.

Clearly preferring ranching — a good alternative, to be sure — it pilloried governors amenable to grazing reserves, designed to stem clashes between farmers and herdsmen; and dismissed them as Judases eager to trade off «ancestral lands».

All that we are saying is let's begin to identify grazing reserves, let us know their current status in view of developing them and making them attractive to the pastorialist.

All the grazing reserves we have in the country are located in the Northern part of the country.

He said, «The Federal Government should begin the development of grazing reserves.

The leader of the sub-committee said the herders got to know that there were two million hectares of land in 19 states of northern Nigeria in which one million hectares of land was gazetted as grazing reserves.

Umahi, who addressed journalists on the outcome of the committee's visit to both Benue and Nasarawa states, said the herdsmen pleaded to be given enough time to commence ranching or move to states with grazing reserves.

The population of Nigeria has grown far beyond the establishment of grazing reserves», he said.

They have become much more violent since they were told that our lands are parts of the Sanga Grazing Reserves.»

He said about 1000 houses were in complete ruins, adding that the herdsmen said they were sitting on their Grazing Reserves and that we must quit our ancestral homelands.

He said, «The two grazing reserves locations gazette over 20 years ago and not under the administration of Alhaji Yahaya Bello.

Oloruntoba said the committee was set up to look at the workability of reconstituting the Grazing Reserve Committee in the two gazetted grazing reserves and other possible suitable locations in the State to deal with the the menace of farmers Fulani crisis following the directive of the federal government of Nigeria.

They argued that the landmass in the northern parts of Nigeria is enough to accommodate the herdsmen, stressing that the federal government should build grazing reserves in the north and resettle the cattle rearers in those reserved areas.

He said, «Our constitution does not recognise cattle colony, it recognises cattle ranches and cattle grazing reserves.

«We believe that the establishment of cattle ranches or grazing reserves is an economically viable project that can generate millions of jobs and income for Nigerians and the country.

Bello said the FCT Administration had moved a step further by identifying new grazing reserves that would cater for cattle grazing requirements.

ORA while insisting that the idea of the federal government to establish cattle colonies or grazing reserves for the herdsmen was a direct ploy to take Nigerians» lands and give to the Fulanis, implored all herdsmen to move their cattle to the allocated lands reserved for such purpose by both Kano and Niger state governments saying that the allocated lands were enough to accommodate herdsmen and their cattle.

President Muhammadu Buhari and the state governors have agreed that ranches should be established to address incessant farmers / herdsmen clashes instead of grazing reserves, Gov. Simon Lalong...

He stated, «If the Nigerian state will have so much value for animals against humanity to the extent of providing grazing reserves and importing feeds for animals, the Ekiti State Governor has done well to the deserving people of the state.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday stated that the Federal Government lacked the powers to seize land from states for the establishment of grazing reserves or livestock production centres.

Not exact matches

Apart from their activities of grazing their cattle on farm land and forest reserves, the herdsmen are also alleged to be into all sorts of crimes including armed robbery, rape, Stealing, burning of farms and worst of it all, killing of farmers».

Midway through their four - year study, there was a change in policy in the reserve and residents there were encouraged to allow livestock to graze there.

For instance, a conservation organization called Arbeitsgemeinschaft Biologischer Umweltschutz (ABU) has more than 100 of their own faux aurochs grazing in various nature reserves in northwest Germany.

In northern Kenya, a privately owned rhino reserve is guiding communities that are rewilding former grazing lands at the same time as it fosters lucrative tourism facilities in a region once devastated by poaching.

But prairie - reserve managers shouldn't move too quickly, as bison tend to range more widely than cattle, and any grazing «can be very bad for grasslands» that are already degraded, Collins says.

If geese alone could shape the landscape, what would happen if the animals that inhabited Europe before humans arrived were introduced to the reserve and allowed to graze freely?

Four modern motel style flats and four standard cabins situated on a sheep and cattle grazing property situated in the heart of the Coorong, surrounded by national parks, a game reserve and set in a scenic gum tree area.

Reserves were established as areas of land to hold, control and protect Indigenous people as pastoralism and mining extended across Australia and the traditional owners were moved to make way for mining and grazing cattle and sheep.