Homes and Livelihoods Are at Risk due to Nigeria’s Crumbling Orimedu Shoreline
Land degradation is a problem along Nigeria’s Orimedu shoreline. The locals are witnessing both the loss of their livelihoods and the devastation of their houses. A quick look around the beach reveals how near people’s homes are to the boats and the rising shoreline.
The fishermen in this area have come together for a traveling show that highlights the increasing threat of sea level rise and coastal erosion around the Gulf of Guinea through images and landscape designs.
In addition to landscape architecture ideas created over the course of a three-year study project looking at how communities may adapt to climate change, the show includes recent photos of coastal villages in Ghana, Nigeria, and Cote d’Ivoire.
The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University funds and oversees the entire project, which was curated by Gareth Doherty, an associate professor at the National University of Singapore.
“It is crucial that we return the research to the communities from which we have been studying over the last three years,” he states. As a result, we spent a great deal of time recording what locals told us about the actual effects of coastal erosion in towns like this one along the Gulf of Guinea coast.
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