RESPONSES OF SOME ADHERENTS OF AFRICAN RELIGION, CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM IN TARABA STATE ON THE ECOLOGICAL DEGRADATION (2014 – 2024)

Abstract

Taraba State is located in North Eastern Nigeria, West Africa with rich heterogeneous ethnicities and three religious faiths been practiced by their adherents. The State is blessed with abundant human and natural resources which are persistently been mismanaged and destroyed with absolute impunity as a result of man's incessant degradational activities which remained lamentable even till day. The paper examined responses of some adherents of African, Christian and Islamic Religions in Taraba State on ecological degradation from 2014-2024. The research made use of analytic, expository, comparative and descriptive and field methods of research. Data were collected from Focus Group Discussions, interviews and consultation of related books. The research further observes that, since man's creation by creator-Animator (God), man has advanced both scientifically, technologically and has
continued to devise means of exploiting the ecosystem with utmost impunity thereby leading to environmental degradation which affects abiotic and biotic factors today. The paper equally recommends that, there should be continual preservation and judicious use of the environment by all and sundry. Also, Government, religious leaders, traditional rulers, policy makers and other meaningful individuals should come up as a team with stringent punitive and precautionary measures on how to save the environment from man’s impunity, recklessness and continual degradation activities. Conclusively, the environment is the best home created and given to man by God, and care for it is not optional but a bounding duty on all and sundry to ensure is protected and judiciously use now and for posterity’s sake.