The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted a shipment containing 10,603 donkey penises, presumed headed for China, highlighting the scale of illicit wildlife trafficking through the country’s ...

Education will play a crucial role in mitigating the consequences. Experts issue warning as emerging trend impacts human and animal life — here's what's happening first appeared on The Cool Down.

Since the brutal and unequally yoked Biafran war of independence, Nigeria has not witnessed the type of systemic and ...

Baker said, “Nigeria’s criminal code prohibits torturing animals, causing them unnecessary suffering, and wounding or killing them unlawfully.

A recent flood in Nigeria has decimated the animal population of the Sanda Kyarimi Zoo in the country's Borno state. Officials said that 80% of the zoo's animals died during the flood, and ...

Puppeteers move cardboard animals in canoes at the Makoko Slum in Lagos Nigeria, Saturday, April 19, 2025, as part of "The Herds," a moving theatre performance that started its journey from the ...

The Hadejia Wetlands National Park in northwestern Nigeria is a vital ecological treasure, designated as both a globally ...

In Nigeria, approximately 98% of pangolins are hunted primarily for their meat, not for the international scales trade. Most pangolins are caught opportunistically during general hunting, with ...

A spokesperson for NEMA, Nigeria’s disaster management agency, Manzo Ezekiel, told CNN Wednesday that efforts were being made to recapture the animals.

Nigeria’s efforts to shake its reputation as a wildlife trafficking hub have had laudable results, said Crawford Allan, a wildlife crime and policy expert at the World Wildlife Fund.

It is Saturday, the second day of “ The Herds” theatrical tour stop in Nigeria on a journey 20,000 kilometers (12,427 miles) from Africa’s Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle with puppet animals.