**2. Materials and method**

#### **2.1 Study area**

Kainji Lake National Park is located in the North central part of the country lies latitude 9′45 and 10'23 N and longitude 3′40 and 5′47E. It is made up of

*Human Settlement Encroachment in Kainji Lake National Park, Nigeria DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.99214*


#### **Table 1.**

*Sampling population and size.*

two sectors (Borgu and Zugurma) situated in Borgu and Kaima/Baruten Local Government Area of Niger and Kwara State respectively. It covers a total land area of 5,340.825q [13].

## **2.2 Method of data collection**
