Assessment of People’s Perception and Willingness to Pay for Environmental Services of Trees in Wukari, Taraba State

^1*Zaku S.S., ¹Maiguru A.A., and ¹Egoh E.D.

¹Department of Forestry and Wild life Management, Federal University Wukari, Taraba State, Nigeria.

^*Corresponding Author’s: E-mail Address ✉: sszaku@yahoo.com; Phone no ☎: (+234), 08032238713

Accepted January 24, 2020

Forest ecosystems provide myriad of goods and services with trees being the dominant supplier. Trees provide environmental services such as control of soil erosion, reducing noise level, improve air quality, regulating regional rainfall, recreation and tourism as well as carbon sequestration. These environmental services provided by trees are important but are not quantifiable in monetary terms. They are not traded in the market place and so do not have price or commercial value. Despite the provision of all these environmental services by trees in the study area, these services are not known, documented or paid for, in the study area. When people pay for services provided by the trees, they attach value to the trees and that will prevent its Illegal destruction. Therefore, “Assessment of people’s perception of environmental services of trees and their willingness to Pay for such services” were investigated.

Key words: Environmental services, Trees, willingness to pay, monetary valuation and perception.

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