- Author(s): Adekola, G. and Pepple N. Rowland
- Volume 11, No 2, 2023
This study investigated environmental adult education for mitigating the socioeconomic effects of wildlife poaching in Cross River State, Nigeria. Previous studies showed that there is rapid and significance loss in wildlife species in the state which has socio-economic effects on the people. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study and it was delimited to three out of the eighteen local government areas in Cross River State – Boki, Obalinku and Akamkpa) with enormous wildlife and protected areas. The population of the study comprised one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-three (1,923) members of communitybased organisations, 580 members of the Community-based organisations were selected through multi-stage sampling technique, because they are working towards reducing the socio-economic effects of poaching in the state, this constituted the sample size. Environmental Adult Education for Curbing Poaching of Wildlife Questionnaire (0.89) was used to obtain data. Data collected were analysed with mean and grand mean statistics. Results revealed that poaching has socio-economic effects in the study area and environmental adult education can serve as solution to poaching of wildlife in Cross Rivers State, Nigeria. The study recommended that adult educators should organise programmes to address the specific needs and challenges faced by communities where poaching is rampant and concluded that poaching is a major environmental problem in Nigeria and that it has negative effects on the lives, social and physical environment of the people and that environmental adult education (EAE) will play important role in curbing it if adopted as an approach.