Easter 2024
You are welcome to visit Ogba Zoo and Nature Park during the Easter
Games, Dancing, Bouncy Castle, and lots more.
Come enjoy the serene atmosphere as you come to watch the animals.
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International Day of Forests! March 21 , 2024
Happy International Day of Forests!
International Forest Day is celebrated every year on March 21. It was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 to raise awareness and give importance to all types of forests. This year’s theme is, ” : .”
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Happy World Wildlife Day 2024
Theme: Connecting People and Planet
Subtheme: Exploring Digital Innovations in Wildlife Conservation.
With the burgeoning increase in human connectivity through digital innovations and technology, the theme for this year’s World Wildlife Day event couldn’t have come at a better time.
The impact of exploring innovations, digital interventions and technology in wildlife conservation, sustainable legal wildlife trade, bonding between humans and nature, community ecosystems and the world at large will enable the acceleration and actualization of wildlife conservation goals and efforts. The ease, possibilities, speed and efficiency that innovations and technology brings when embraced cannot be overemphasized.
As more innovations spring up by the day to foster human connections, digital inventions and technologies can be leveraged to foster bonding between people and the environment, amplify the appreciation of nature, encourage sustainable practices and execute wildlife conservation efforts.
Here are 13 action plans to boost the connection of people and planet and exploration of digital innovations in wildlife conservation
1. Provision of educational programs that highlight the importance of nature, biodiversity, and ecosystems. Raise awareness about environmental issues and the impact of human activities.
2. Promote the integration of green spaces in urban planning. This provides spots for relaxation, exercise, and reconnection with nature.
3. Engage technology-based services and tools in data collection, surveys, monitoring and analysis. This will instill a sense of contribution and understanding of people’s awareness, exposure and attitude towards conservation efforts.
4. Organize nature-based events, workshops, and festivals create opportunities for people to learn, share experiences, and connect with like-minded individuals.
5. Develop or promote nature-based applications and technological tools to foster conservation, management, projects, nature exploration and more. For example, creation of apps to enable flora and fauna identifications, hiking trails, and outdoor activities.
6. Organize and promote outdoor activities such as nature walk, viewing birds, camping, and the like.
7. Use of artistic images and expressions that amplifies the wonders and existence in nature. A Photography contests, nature-focused art classes, and exhibitions can help people appreciate the beauty of nature.
8. Integration of wildlife conservation education into secondary school curricula. Early exposure of children to nature studies is a booster to a lifelong connection and understanding of the environment.
9. Create and offer volunteer opportunities and programs for environmental and wildlife conservation. Community clean up, tree-planting exercises, and participating in habitat restoration projects to create direct connection and interaction with people and the planet.
10. Organize nature retreats and wellness programs that emphasize the therapeutic benefits of spending time outdoors. Yoga, mindfulness, and meditation in natural settings contribute to overall well-being.
11. Promotion of modest tourism practices with least impact on the environmental impact.
12. Use of storytelling and narratives that amplifies the splendor, wonders and significance of nature. Storytelling has quick-attention-grabbing impact on people to produce the desired effect. Storytelling can be done through documentaries, books, social media, etc.
13. Establish/support Conservation-focused NGOs, clubs and Organizations as they provide a platform for people to collaborate and partake in conservation initiatives and projects.
– Ogba Zoo Media
Sun, 3 March 2024
Yultide Festivities
Ogba Zoo is here again with lots of exclusive shows that will help you and your loved ones enjoy your Christmas, Boxing and New Day Year to the fullest.
Here’s the catch👇
Uncle Six O’clock and other exceptional personalities will be live with wonderful packages, interesting games to keep you occupied, fun activities for children, wildlife exhibitions, Ogba Zoo Trade Fair, and more.
Gate Fee: N1,000 each (On Christmas, Boxing and New Year Day).
Venue: Ogba Zoo & Nature Park
Airport road, Benin City.
See you soon
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World Tourism Day Sept 27, 2023
World Tourism Day 23: Tourism and Green Investment – September 27th
It is with great delight that Ogba Zoo and Nature Park was part of the insightful event to commemorate the Ecotourism Day 23. This event was powered by the ministry of Arts, Culture and Tourism and other stake holders. The Honourable commissioner for arts and culture, dignitaries from different parastatals, relevant bodies, academia, elites, enogies, chiefs and more graced the occasion.
The speakers amplified the importance of tourism and green investments in Nigeria, different ways stake holders and individuals can get involved and more importantly opportunities were created for antendees to review the Edo Heritage.
No doubt, the current administration is intentional about giving the ecotourism wings to fly via the relevant development springing forth in the ecotourism spac
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- Celebrattion of World Tourism Day
World Chimpanzee Day 14/7/2023
It is our collective responsibility to safeguard their habitats, protect their populations and ensure their survival for generations to come.
World chimpanzee day 14th July 2023 is celebrated at Ogbazoo and Nature Park
NAZAP To Undergo Urgent Professional Development
The Nigerian Association of Zoological Gardens and Wildlife Parks (NAZAP) is to undergo urgent professional development that will be a catalyst for the transformation of its member facilities. This was made known by the Chairman NAZAP Board of Trustees Prof Olajumoke Morenikeji, following the resignation of its President, Mr. Oladipo Bali.
In the acceptance of the resignation, the BOT Chairperson thanked the former President for his contributions to the advancement NAZAP.
On his part, another Trustee / Secretary of the NAZAP BOT Mr Andy Osa Ehanire said that there will be a fresh Accreditation process for all Zoo and Wildlife facilities that will pave the way for the election of new Executives and the reconstitution of the NAZAP Governing Council.
The Chairman had earlier called for increased synergy amongst wildlife stakeholders as recently prescribed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), during the recent World Wildlife Day commemoration. She emphasised that Zoos remain a veritable scheme for wildlife Conservation and thus deserve adequate support from both Government as well as corporate organisations.
She further said that Zoos will continue to make an impact in the growth of tourism in Nigeria. Other Trustees are Alh Ali Yola, Dr. Moses Oyatogun, Mr. Francis Abioye and Mallam Aminu Beli.
Checklist of flora in Ogba Zoo, Edo State, Nigeria on GBIF
This is an inventory of plants growing in Ogba Zoo, Edo State, Nigeria
Geographic scope
The collection was recorded in Ogba Zoo, Edo state, Nigeria
For more information about the collections please visit this link on the Global Biodiversity Information Facility
What is the The GBIF?
The GBIF is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility- an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world’s governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth. For more information about this organization. Click here
Rampaging Elephants
Cameroon Says Elephants Killed 10, Leaving Many Homeless and Hungry
YAOUNDA, CAMEROON – Rampaging elephants have killed at least 10 people, destroyed plantations and left hundreds homeless on Cameroon’s northern border with Nigeria. The government of the central African state says people have moved into the elephants’ habitat, sparking conflict.
Scores of villagers watch and shout as over a hundred elephants trample millet farms in the suburbs of Cameroon’s northern town of Kaele.
Dourougar Mussa, a community leader in Kaele, says the elephants have been destroying farmlands and houses in the area since November.
No one should attack and provoke the elephants to get wilder, Mussa tells 15 male farmers gathered in front of him. He says the lives of humans are more important than the crops and houses destroyed by the elephants.
Jean David Ndjigba, the top wildlife government official in the Far North region of Cameroon where Kaele is found, says the elephants have killed at least 10 people within the past two weeks. Some died in stampedes. Others were killed when they charged at the animals to scare them away.
Officials say the elephants have destroyed more than a hundred hectares of millet farms along the northern border with Nigeria. Hundreds of people have been left homeless or hungry.
Ndjigba says the elephants are leaving the Kalfou reserve in search of water and food.
He says the number of elephants in the reserve has increased over time, but the habitat of the animals has been reduced, as people take over the land for farms and villages.
He says the Kalfou reserve which is about 10,000 hectares was home to 50 elephants 20 to 30 years ago. He says today the reserve is now down to 4,000 hectares and is the habitat to over 300 elephants.
Ndjigba adds it is dangerous for villagers to try to kill the animals – and calls for less confrontational methods to scare the elephants from farms and villages.
Villagers should make noise, he says, by shouting and beating drums, dishes and pots with sticks to chase the elephants away instead of struggling to kill the gigantic animals. He says villagers can also burn pepper because elephants hate the smell of the spicy hot powder. He says bee farmers should place their bee hives on the surroundings of villages because elephants run away from bees.
Cameroon is home to an estimated 6,500 elephants, one of the largest populations left in Africa. Wildlife groups have been urging Cameroonians not to kill the animals, which have been poached extensively across the continent in recent decades and are classified as an endangered species.
Culled from https://www.voanews.com/africa/cameroon-says-elephants-killed-10-leaving-many-homeless-and-hungry?fbclid=IwAR0P90mAgxbHBKsbfEhevyMb6uXXjetMAe9MUhd7BG_36bOO3eore8UbwxY
Conserve Wildlife
“As the world responds to this pandemic, we must be led by the science, and the science is telling us that the destruction of nature and encroachment of humans and industry into natural habitats is making the emergence of new and dangerous viruses ever more likely”
- Sir David Attenborough, May, 2020
Excerpt from the Facebook Page Conserve Wildlife for Existence
https://web.facebook.com/conservewildlifeforexistence.bd.com.we/posts/182426150253994