Survey Of Ethno-Fauna Resources In Nasarawa State

Abstract

Survey study was carried out on the existing ethno-fauna resources in three different local government areas (Lafia, Nassarawa Eggon and Doma) in Nasarawa State to document various animals used in treatment of ailment in the study area. A total of sixty (60) respondents were used for the study, five markets were randomly selected from each of the local government area and four traditional medical practitioners from the selected markets were interviewed. Data collected were analyzed using simple descriptive statistics and Information Consensus Factor (ICF). This result shows that fauna based trado-medicinal preparation in various forms has wide acceptance among the people in the study area. This fauna species are often used in conjunction with one or more other animal and/or plant species, though there are some situation in which a single-species preparation is employed in treatment. Based on the result of the study it was recommended that animals species should be domesticated rather than wild hunting and more research should be conducted by Pharmaceutical companies to ascertain the efficacy of these animals in trado-medical practice.