This article examines how Ukara Island religiosity generates a coherent environmental ethic through the integration of traditional beliefs, moral valuation, and environmental conservation. Drawing on a qualitative case study involving focus group discussions, key‑informant interviews, and artefact analysis, the study reconstructs five interrelated domains of Ukara Island religious life: clan‑spirit cosmology, the authority of traditional specialists, vital‑force interpretations of illness, elder‑mediated knowledge transmission, and the ecological roles of Christian and Islamic institutions. Salience‑weighted thematic matrices demonstrate that traditional religion agents such as clan gods, witches, healers, and ancestors anchor axiological commitments to life, land, and moral order, which in turn produce deontic constraints expressed through taboos, rituals, sanctions, and stewardship practices. The findings align with contemporary African eco‑philosophy, which views vital force, relational ontology, and sacred ecologies as foundational to environmental ethics. The study contributes a fine‑grained model of how African religiosity structures ecological responsibility in a biocultural landscape.
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