**6. Recommendations**

The following recommendations were made from the study:

With the manifestation of encroachment activities, Kainji Lake National Park needs to consider reviewing its policy for the minimization of human activities in and around the park; for instance enforcement of regulations and legislation on the safe distance on community settlement from the Park.

National Parks should re-strategies on the new ways of mitigating human encroachment and settlement through surveillance and monitoring of people from illegal entry to the park.

Farmers being the most affected in terms of farming activities in the park, the government should come up with an alternative way of livelihood that suits the farmers living around Kainji Lake National Park to ease competition over resources.
