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ABSTRACT
The study was carried out to forest degradation on the livelihood of selected rural communities in this Edo south ecological zone ,Edo state Nigeria. Ninety-eight copies of questionnaires were administered on adjoining communities were data obtained are used in multi stage sampling procedure, the data were collected and were analyzed using descriptive statistics(i.e frequency and percentage) and inferential statistics involved “ t”-test and ANOVA. The result revealed that there are significant differences ( p < 0.05) among the rate of depletion between Ehor and Sokponba forest reserve, further analysis identified forest reserves hecterage is dominated by farm land and plantation, in which the rate of degradation is fast in Sokponba forest reserve than Ehor forest reserve. it also shows that there are no significant differences ( p > 0.05) in various allocated taungya farm for past 10 years, further analysis identified farmers in rural communities no longer practices taungya farming system, result shows that there are no significant differences ( p > 0.05) among the Number of Taungya farmers for past 10 years in adjoining communities, further analysis identified that number of taungya farmers in adjoining community is rare. result also revealed there are significant differences ( p < 0.05) among the idenitified impacts of forest degradation, further analysis identified forest products faces disappearance. Therefore, it is recommended that government should assists the conservation management and encourage afforestation programmes with adequate funds.
