The study examined Women and the environment in Nigeria:The experience of rural women of the Niger Delta. The study employed the survey research design. The population of this study consists of all the eight Local Government Areas. they are Ekeremor, Kolokuma/Opokuma, Yenagoa, Nembe, Obio/Akpor, Ikwerre,Ahoada West, and Ahoada East local government councils in Bayelsa State, Nigeria The sample size therefore was determined by using the Taro-Yamen’s formula and the sample size was 200. The statistical analysis of data in this study involved the following frequency tables, percentages, Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, (r) with the use of statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 21.0. Thus our interpretation of r and the level of statistical significance was strictly based on the SPSS output. Thus, the study used both descriptive and inferential analyses. Descriptive analysis was used to determine the extent of relationship between internal audit and audit report quality, while the inferential analyses (Pearson’s r) was used to test the hypotheses. There is a positive and a strong relationship between financial audit and faithful representation, there is a significant relationship between environmental pollution and rural women access to water supply for drinking and cooking in the Niger Delta. there is a significant relationship between environmental pollution and shortages of food, fish/seafood and fuel wood for rural women in the Niger Delta. there is a significant relationship between environmental pollution and reproductive health of rural women in the Niger Delta. In view of the findings of this study therefore, the following recommendations are made the management of oil companies in the Niger delta should put in place measures that will make their operations environmentally friendly to guard against further environmental pollution, make provision for sustainable source of water supply for their host communities, carry out empowerment scheme to enable the rural women have alternative source of income since they can no longer depend on the mangrove ecosystem and farmland which hitherto was their major means of livelihood also built and equip cottage hospitals in the host communities to carter for those already affected and potential victims of reproductive health challenge.