The general manager of Sanda Kyarimi Zoo in the Borno state of Nigeria said several animals pushed out of the zoo by flood waters have been recovered Kimberlee Speakman is a Writer-Reporter on the ...

We are increasingly treating animals in the wrong way In what has become an everyday spectacle in our country, itinerant traditional medicine sellers and owners of small circuses move around towns and ...

MAKOKO, Nigeria — 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. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard ...

Floods in northern Nigeria have killed more than 80% of animals in a zoo including lions, buffaloes and ostriches. Some deadly animals, like snakes and crocodiles ...

With a full-fledged Ministry of Livestock Development, Nigeria can no longer afford to pretend that livestock movement is a harmless, informal cultural practice beyond the reach of the state. What was ...

Restrictions imposed by the Nigerian government to slow the spread of COVID-19 have hampered field operations of conservation agencies and NGOs, who are turning to creative and high-tech solutions to ...

A hyena may not be your average house pet, but in northern Nigeria some men keep the creatures in their homes, display them at festivals and even use their dung or saliva to make remedies. By Nneka ...

SIR: Many times I question if we have a ministry of environment and health services as it were in this country. On many visits to abattoirs, you see appalling sights of a messy environment. What the ...