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ABSTRACT

It is powerfully documented that man's hostile attitude to nature is not a new development. Humans have for all time seen their environment as something to be degraded, exploited and dominated. These human activities are accountable for the loss of bio-diversity and disruption of bionetwork processes which has led to the lessening and obliteration of the number of species of plants and animals in the ecosystem. Every religious tradition describes or outlines its relationship to the natural environment very clearly. This relationship is based on how we have made up our mind in a deep and hard think about the natural environment affects the very way we live in it. This work has shown that African Traditional Religion (ATR) has the potential to situate humans in relation to both the natural and human worlds with regard to meaning and responsibility (stewardship), through its taboos, proverbs, sanctions and moral authority and institutional power that help effect a change in attitudes, practices and public policies in respect to addressing the urgent environmental problems of contemporary society and sustainability.