C. P. Kalu

The monitoring activities adopted in various forest operations in Edo State were investigated in this study. The relevant issues related to the monitoring methods adopted, personnel involved, impacts and challenges of the monitoring methods adopted was studied with the aid of questionnaire. The result showed that there were significant differences among the agents involved in forest monitoring (P<0.05) and further analysis with LSD identified State Department of Forest (SDF) as the most dominant. The result revealed that both operational and strategic monitoring method is being adopted (85.5%), and there were significant difference among the adopted methods in operational and strategic method (P<0.05), further analysis identified patrol for monitoring log movement, and goal-oriented method as most dominant respectively. The result also revealed that the participatory method in forest monitoring is main professional-based and locally-based, 53.63% and 30.43% respectively. It revealed that there was no significant difference among the participation of local members in participatory forest monitoring (P<0.05). It reveal also that there were significant difference
among the challenges on proper forest monitoring (P<0.05) and further analysis with LSD identified inadequate manpower, underfunding and insecurity as the most dominant. It was observed that there was no significant difference among the impacts of the monitoring methods adopted in the State’s forest estate.