Many of biodiversity species are under threat of extinction as pressure on them increases. A threat to these economic plant species means a threat to the survival of the rural people. This study was carried out in Ikwe game reserve Benue, Nigeria with an aim to assess the survival edible wild plants. A transect line of 1km was laid at an interval of 100 meters along each transect. A sample plot sizes 25 x 25 meters were randomly laid at 20 meters apart at both side of the transects. Complete enumeration of edible wild plants species were identified and recorded within each sample plot in the study area. The result showed a total of twelve (12) economic species of edible wild plants were surviving in the study area. The most dominant species (Isoberlina doka) present within the reserve was not an edible plant. The study area faces anthropogenic activities, thereby affecting the abundance of edible species in the study area. The most edible plants were Parkia biglobosa and Prosopis Africana. These species have high economic value to the Community. The presence of edible plant species like Vitex doniana was relatively high in abundance; this could be due to the fact that it was scarcely utilized by the local people or because of their limited ideas about its nutritional contents. The non relative abundance of edible wild plants in the study area had an implication that could be attributed to high rate of degradation of the reserve; which had become bare ground due to anthropogenic activities. The Reserve is an asset that the Government or any Non Governmental Organization can explore for its renewable potentials and richness, scenery and other natural features. It has the potentials of becoming a major source of revamping the local economy of the rural people. It is recommended that the local communities should be empowered economically, so they can have alternative sources of livelihood that are biodiversity friendly, thus reducing their dependence on the reserve.