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Nigeria: Inside Nigeria's Shocking Wildlife Crimes and How Culprits Escape Justice
Premium Times, 4 March 2022
Our analysis of wildlife crimes data, supported by numerous interviews, finds evidence of systematic failure by Nigerian law enforcement and the judicial system to hold wildlife… Read more »
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Africa: World Wildlife Day 2022 - '1.6 Trillion Wild Animals Killed Annually'
Premium Times, 3 March 2022
The World Animal Protection calls for stringent measures to enact policies to protect the African wildlife from cruelty and exploitation. Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Protecting Wildlife and Indigenous Peoples' Livelihoods in DRC #AfricaClimateCrisis
FAO, 3 March 2022
The Mbuti people at the heart of wildlife management Read more »
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Nigeria: NCF Marks World Pangolin Day, Calls for Urgent Conservation Actions
This Day, 22 February 2022
The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) has called on Nigerians to take useful and urgent actions to conserve the remaining species of Pangolin in the country. Read more »
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Nigeria: Usage of Nigeria As Transit for Pangolin Smuggling Worries Customs
Vanguard, 13 October 2021
The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has decried the usage of Nigeria as a transit route for the smuggling of Pangolin scales and claws, even as the Service in collaboration with the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Again, Customs Intercepts N3.2bn Pangolin Scales, Elephant Tusks in Lagos
Leadership, 10 February 2022
The comptroller-general of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali, yesterday, said officers of the Strike Force Unit intercepted pangolin scales and Elephant tusks… Read more »
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Nigeria: Elephants and the Dwindling Populations - Any Hope for Recovery?
This Day, 7 September 2021
There were recent publications on the interception of elephant ivory (846 kg) and pangolin scales (7.1 tonnes) and claws (4.6kg), worth USD54 million (about N22 billion) in Lagos… Read more »