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NIGERIA
Nigeria joined the EPI in 2018. Nigeria has only a few hundred surviving elephants. The largest herd is in Yankari National Park, with smaller relict populations in the forests of southern Nigeria and the savannah of northern Nigeria.
PROGRESS
DECLARATION AGAINST INTERNATIONAL IVORY TRADE
NEAP IN DEVELOPMENT
Nigeria's former Minister of Environment, Ibrahim Usman Jibril, speaks in support of the EPI, Illegal Wildlife Trade Confierece, October 2018.
NIGERIA'S
EPI FRIENDS OF THE MONTH
TUNDE MORAKINYO
August 2019
Our Friend of the Month is Tunde Morakinyo, a founder of African Nature Investors, working to protect some of Nigeria’s wild places and remaining elephants.
Country Area: 923,770 km²
Elephant Range Area: 20,088 km² (2%)
Protected Range: 78%
Estimated Elephant Population: 94
Guesses: 169-463*
CITES Appendix: I
All statistics are taken from 2016 AfESG African Elephant Status Report
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