page_title: Isoko South
section_title: Environmental challenges and projects
hierarchical_section_title: Isoko South / Environmental challenges and projects
caption_attribution_description: English: Tree planting project. Isoko South Local Government. Delta State, Nigeria
context_page_description: Isoko South is a Local Government Area in the Isoko region of Delta State, Nigeria. With its headquarters at Oleh, Nigeria, it is one of the two local governments that make up the Isoko region. The other is Isoko North, which has its headquarters at Ozoro.
context_section_description: Oil and gas exploration activities began in the area in the early 1950s, and the second oil well in Nigeria was discovered in Uzere, Isoko South, in 1958. The massive growth of the oil and gas industries has created significant environmental challenges, and have been a source of much concern for the local government. 
  Challenges such as gas flaring, oil spills from pipelines, deforestation and waste miss-management have been made more serious by federal laws which centralise control of the oil rich land and allow local government relatively little control over activities. 
  Due to such concerns, in 2001, the Isoko South Local Government joined ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, the first local government in Nigeria to do so. 
  The local government has since engaged in extensive project work to combat the effects of oil and gas pollution. It has promulgated a law that makes Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) compulsory for all developmental and industrial projects, and has also carried out environmental auditing with environmental regulators and NGOs in the local government area.
  Large tree planting projects have also been launched in collaboration with community-based organisations and with UNDP GEF/SGP support.
caption: Local tree planting in Isoko South LGA.
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