One of the priorities of ENARMAC is to facilitate the domestication of international conventions and agreements on environmental matters through community engagement in natural resources conservation and environmental management activities for livelihood support and sustainable development. Currently, the Company is working with a Community-based Organization (The Great League of Pioneers, Otun Ekiti), to ensure the continuous protection of the 10ha Community Herbal Heritage Centre in Otun – Ekiti, which was established since July 1993, following the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, In June 1992. The 10ha project site which used to be fallow farmland has now grown into climax vegetation.

 

In May 2017, the Chief Executive of ENARMAC led the team of experts from the Federal Ministry of Environment to undertake some project activities which included:

(a) Interactive session with Conservation Club at the Community School (Moba

Grammar School, Otun Ekiti);

(b) Interactive discussion with Community leaders on the project objective and expected role of the Community;

(c) Botanical rambling with Community members to identify medicinal plants that are in the Herbal Heritage Centre;

(d) Natural resources assessment to facilitate the development of a management plan for the project; and

(e) Perimeter fencing of the project site with barbwire.