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Table 7.2
Species Value / Sensitivity Criteria
Value /
Sensitivity
Criteria
Low Medium High
Not protected or listed
and common /
abundant; or not critical
to other ecosystem
functions (eg key prey
species to other species).
Not protected or listed
but: a species common
globally but rare in
Nigeria; important to
ecosystem functions;
or under threat or
population decline.
Specifically protected under
Nigerian legislation and/or
international conventions
eg CITIES (1) .
Listed as rare, threatened or
endangered eg IUCN
For socio-economic impacts, the degree of sensitivity of a receptor is defined
as ‘a stakeholder’s (or groups of stakeholders’) resilience or capacity to cope with
sudden changes or economic shocks’. The sensitivity of a resource is based on its
quality and value/importance, for example, by its local, regional, national or
international designation, its importance to the local or wider community, or
its economic value (Table 7.3).
Stakeholders may be more sensitive for a variety of reasons and for the
purpose of this scheme the following factors have been considered:
• age, gender, race or religion;
• land rights and ownership patterns;
• income/employment/unemployment;
• livelihood (current and extent of livelihood alternatives);
• services, e.g. health, amenities (quality and access);
• access to, and use of, natural resources including water;
• food security and reliance on subsistence farming;
• education/skills;
• health or disability;
• support networks; and
• exclusion or marginalisation (e.g. degree of access to resources, services
and formalised rights).
The groups which have been identified as being potentially sensitive in Edo
State, Nigeria drawing on the above criteria include unemployed youth,
female headed households and the elderly. In addition to these groups, those
who will be affected by involuntary resettlement as a consequence of the
Project will also experience a higher level of impacts.
(1) Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
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