Conservation

The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) joined the rest of the world on Saturday, March 30 to observe the 2019 Earth Hour at Lekki Conservation Centre (LCC), NCF’s head offices in Lagos. The Lekki Conservation Centre, head offices of the NCF in Lagos Earth Hour is used all over the world to promote actions that mitigate climate change and sustainable living. At ...

Range States have agreed on a set of concrete conservation priorities guiding the work under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Concerning the Restoration, Conservation and Sustainable Use of Saiga Antelopes (Saiga spp.) up to 2025. Baby Saiga Antelopes. Photo credit: Eugene Polonsky The agreement came at a workshop held in Bonn, Germany from April 1 to 4, 2019 and jointly ...

As hundreds of millions of birds return to Europe from their wintering grounds in Africa, an estimated 25 million will not reach their destination. Migratory birds This disclosure was made by the Rainforest Rescue, a not-for-profit group, as it recently embraced a campaign to halt the slaughter of migratory birds. Indeed, twice a year, hundreds of millions of birds migrate ...

Kenya and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Thursday, April 11, 2019 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to help increase forest cover as part of efforts to protect the country against the vagaries of environmental destruction. Kenya’s Environment and Forestry Minister, Keriako Tobiko The programme, dubbed “Greening Kenya” campaign, will ensure that about 50 million tree seedlings are ...

As countries continue to act to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and members to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) await the coming of year 2020 to agree to a new global biodiversity framework, it has become clear that data has a crucial role to play. Prof. Alfred Oteng-Yeboah, Chairman of the 2019 Biodiversity Information Management Forum, addressing participants ...

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) announced on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 that Nigeria and 14 other Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) members are to benefit from an $8 million five-year forest protection project. Jose Graziano da Silva, Director General of the FAO The world body said that three agencies – the Swedish International ...

A rather large haul of pangolin scales believed to be originated from Nigeria and bound for Vietnam has been intercepted in Singapore. The scales were found packed in 230 bags among packets of frozen beef In what looks like the biggest single haul in the world in recent years, Singaporean authorities on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 seized 12.9 tonnes of ...

The Nigerian Army says the Sambisa Forest should be turned into an ecosystem resort centre where war relics in the northeast will be maintained as historical sites for tourism. Soldiers in Sambisa Forest Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, the Chief of Army Staff, disclosed this at a seminar organised by the Army Headquarters, Department of Standards and Evaluation on “Regimentation and ...

Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have expressed a strong commitment to addressing wildlife crime as a serious transnational organised crime, and to further scale up efforts to combat it. Flags of participating nations at the Special ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Illegal Wildlife Trade in Thailand They made the commitment on March 21 and 22, 2019 ...

Fishermen in Dadin Kowa community of Yamaltu/Deba Local Government Area, Gombe State, have cried out over increasing attacks on them by hippopotamus. Hippopotamus Malam Sa’adu Adamu, leader of the fishermen in the area, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)) in Gombe, the state capital, on Thursday, March 28, 2019 that the daily attacks by the dreaded animal is affecting their ...