Vice President Kashim Shettima has raised alarm over the alarming rate of forest degradation in Nigeria, warning that over 90 ...

The renewed national forest policing initiative launched by the Federal Government in May is receiving a slow response from ...

The guest lecturer and President, Forestry Association of Nigeria, FAN, Prof. Labode Popoola said Nigeria with a total land area of 923, 678km square has a forest area that has been on a ...

The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima has warned against the consequences of deforestation in Nigeria, saying the development has dire economic implications. He gave the warning on Monday while ...

Shettima has raised concerns over the state of Nigeria’s forests, saying over 90% of the country’s original forest cover has ...

Afi River Forest Reserve (ARFR), in eastern Nigeria’s Cross River state, is an important habitat corridor that connects imperiled populations of critically endangered Cross River gorillas.

The Nigerian Montane Forest Project’s field station set in the Ngel Nyaki Forest. Photo by: Pierre-Michel Forget. Between 2000 and 2010, Nigeria lost nearly a third (31 percent) of its forest ...

To curb escalating insecurity across Nigeria, President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of a national forest guard system and ordered the recruitment of over 130,000 armed operatives to ...

LAGOS, NIGERIA — Nigeria’s military announced last week that it was raiding the Sambisa Forest, one of the last strongholds of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.

An expert on Boko Haram, Yan St-Pierre of the Berlin-based security analysis group MOSECON, said Nigeria’s military had announced its planned attack on the forest 10 days in advance.

In a rare sighting, conservationists have captured new images of the world's rarest gorillas with several babies in southern Nigeria.

May 5, 2015: The army advance into the last Boko Haram stronghold, the Sambisa Forest, has uncovered the main Boko Haram camps and captured most of them. Since April troops have been making their way ...