Nigeria’s minister of state for the environment unveiled an elephant-shaped sculpture made with confiscated ivory on in late July – the country’s latest bid to raise awareness as it ...

Maintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.

In recent years, elephants have eaten crops and destroyed many farms in the communities that house one of Nigeria’s protected conservation areas. After hours of navigating the narrow ...

I have visited the particular communities. The natives all confirmed to me that the elephants didn’t kill anybody but that they actually destroyed several farmlands.” Also speaking on the ...

Apart from the elephants, there are other animals that are declining in population, some becoming rare to spot in the forest … the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee is on the verge of extinction ...