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.

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 ...

Dutsen Bakoshi na one village wey dey for Shanono local govment area for Kano State, northern Nigeria wey dey suffer ...

Overexploitation is a major factor in the decline of many species. Humans exploit at least a third of vertebrate animals to ...

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 ...

An analysis of mpox virus genomes from individuals infected between 2018 and 2023 has provided insights into how the virus ...

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

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

The vast majority of pangolin hunting in African forest landscapes is done for meat consumed by people in the region, rather than for scales shipped to East Asia, a new study led by the University ...

The Coalition for Cruelty Free Africa (CFCFA), in partnership with international animal welfare organisations, has renewed calls for an end to the dog and cat meat trade and ritual animal ...

MAKOKO, Nigeria (AP) — Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos.