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
Wild life Conservation
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
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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
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