Friends of the Environment (FOTE) was established in 1993 under the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a non-governmental organization (NGO). The need to protect and preserve our environment for future generations is of concern to us and this is borne out by the rapid deterioration of our environment, the uncontrolled and unsustainable exploitation of our natural resources such as the rapi
d depletion of our forestry resources due to the large number of Nigerians that depend on fuel-wood for their domestic energy services, oil industry activities such as gas flaring which contributes to climate change and generally addressing global concern relating to Carbon emissions as provided in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, other industrial activities which result in hazardous and toxic waste emissions, ozone depletion etc, the non domestication of some protocols and conventions which Nigeria has acceded to etc.
