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World Pangolin Day: Nigerian icons clamour reduction in demand for illegal bushmeat

On World Pangolin Day observed on Saturday, February 17, 2024, Nigeria's leading personalities from the realms of music, comedy, sports, and business have come...

Customs seizes pangolin scales worth N432m in Bauchi

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone D, Bauchi, has seized contraband Pangolin scales with a Duty Paid Value of N432...

Pangolin trade probe exposes legal loopholes, says report

The Environmental Investigative Agency (EIA) says legal loopholes in wildlife trade between Uganda and China could facilitate an illicit shadow trade in the scales...

Illegal pangolin trade: What’s right, what’s missing and what’s next?

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has, in recent years, become more visible in the course of environmental protection through its demeanor against trans-boundary wildlife...

U.K. envoy, NCF, others advocate protection of Pangolins

Speakers at an event marking the World Pangolin Day (WPD), on Sunday, February 21, 2021 in Lagos advocated the protection of Pangolins to prevent...

Pangolins: Experts call for stringent penalties against wildlife poaching, trading

Some wildlife experts on Friday, February 19, 2021 expressed concern over the illegal poaching of Pangolins and called for enforcement of laws and stringent...

Bats, pangolins not animal reservoir of COVID-19, infections existed outside Wuhan’s market in December 2019 – Chinese expert

Bats and pangolins are certainly not the animal reservoir of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), since the coronaviruses identified in these species are not sufficiently similar...

Customs Service intercepts pangolin scales, others worth N952m

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Apapa Area Command has intercepted pangolin scales and other mixed endangered species meant for export, worth N952 million. Comptroller Mohammed...

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Lagos gives Island residents two-week ultimatum over environmental issues

The Lagos State Government, through its relevant agencies, on Friday, December 6, 2024, issued a two-week ultimatum to residents...
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Images: The sight and colours of COP29

The 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...

Stakeholders call for amendments to strengthen Nigeria’s EIA Act

Cross-cutting experts in the environmental community have called for urgent changes in Nigeria’s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Act to...

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Lagos gives Island residents two-week ultimatum over environmental issues

The Lagos State Government, through its relevant agencies, on...

Images: The sight and colours of COP29

The 29th session of the Conference of the Parties...
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