Mitigating the Environmental Impact of Poverty among Female Gender in Nigeria through Advocacy

Poverty among female gender is becoming a problem in many developing countries of the world generally and Nigeria in particular. This paper has discussed the causative factors inhibiting female gender empowerment in Nigeria. The review of literature has shown that poverty persists among Nigerian female gender because they comparatively have no easy access to credit facilities, education, certain professional jobs and political position of influence. Hence most of them engaged in over- exploiting the natural resources of the environment as a curbing strategy which in turn have ecological effects. This sheer neglect of the female gender, the paper has noted, is leading to destruction of the environment. To this end, the paper has recommended the need for advocacy- action that would usher in equality to productive resources in order to improve their welfare and save the environment in the interest of the overall development of Nigeria.