Africa Nature Investors Foundation

We protect spectacular places like Gashaka-Gumti & Okomu National Parks in Nigeria through ranger patrols & community development. Insta: @ani_foundation

[Africa Nature Investors Foundation @ANI_Foundation]

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[Africa Nature Investors Foundation @ANI_Foundation]

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🇳🇬 🐘 Rescued orphaned elephant highlights Nigeria's conservation fight

The baby forest elephant, rescued after wandering out of Nigeria's Okomu National Park, is being raised by wildlife carers from the conversationist NGO ANI in the hope of returning him to the wild.

[Kada NGBALE @kdngbale]

@czechaid @ANI_Foundation @nacgeof 🐝 Beeswax baiting materials supplied to successfully attract & install the bee colonies. ✨

🐝 Modern Training Sessions began with professional trainers leading theoretical & practical sessions for local beneficiaries, covering hive baiting, bee family dynamics, & safe transfer

[Yorùbáness @Yorubaness]

Archaeologist Gérard Chouin announced uncovering an undocumented stone pavement with a distinctive patterned arrangement while digging a 1x1m test pit in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, to test a hypothesis.

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🇳🇬 🐘 Rescued orphaned elephant highlights Nigeria's conservation fight

The baby forest elephant, rescued after wandering out of Nigeria's Okomu National Park, is being raised by wildlife carers from the conversationist NGO ANI in the hope of returning him to the wild

[AbdulForester @abdulfot]

Gashaka Gumti National park Nigeria: There are places in this world that remind us of how beautiful nature truly is, and Gashaka Gumti National Park is one of them. Hidden between Adamawa and Taraba States, this great park stands proudly as the largest national park in Nigeria and one of the greatest natural treasures in Africa.

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[Arojinle @arojinle1]

Looking at the beginning of my life, the odds were not just stacked against me, they were arranged deliberately, like a wall someone built and walked away from. The neighbourhood, the resources, the circumstances, none of it was designed with my survival in mind. If not for the gift of intelligence, I am not even supposed to make it this far. And I mean that literally, not as a figure of speech.

That is why I keep looking back. Not because I miss the past, not because the past was kind to me, but because forgetting where you came from is the first step toward being dragged back there. The forces that were stacked against me from birth did not retire when I started making progress. They are patient. They recalibrate. They wait.

I think about this in terms of matter. I am like a molecule working against cohesive force, the kind of invisible pressure that keeps everything in its original state, in its original place. To move from solid to liquid requires energy. To move from liquid to gas requires more. And plasma, that fourth state that most people never even think about, that requires conditions so extreme that the average environment cannot sustain it.

Each level of transformation demands that you generate enough activation energy to break what is holding you. There is no shortcut. The physics does not negotiate.

This is why I cannot rest in the way people mean when they tell you to rest. I can pause. I can breathe. But I cannot stop generating heat, because the moment the energy drops below the threshold, the system reverts. That is not pessimism. That is thermodynamics.

Poverty is still in my rearview mirror. I can see his head clearly, not far enough to dismiss, close enough to remind me. Some people are lucky enough to outrun it so completely that they forget what it looks like. I have not been given that luxury, and I have made peace with the fact that maybe I never will be. But there is something clarifying about a chase. It tells you exactly how fast you need to move.

I am not running in fear. I am running with memory, and that is a different thing entirely.

[OHEN @OHEN354668]

This is beautiful, but it won't trend...in Nigeria , especially ..
@ANI_Foundation thank you..
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[The Diplomat @Diplomat_APAC]

Modi’s Great Nicobar Project will open the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to loot and plunder. It involves felling 15 million trees and encroaching upon the land of the reclusive Shompen tribals. https://t.co/AWPM88Y3bb

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🇳🇬 🐘 Rescued orphaned elephant highlights Nigeria's conservation fight

An orphan baby forest elephant rescued after wandering out of Nigeria's Okomu National Park is being raised by wildlife carers from the conversationist NGO ANI in the hope of returning him to the wild.

[Elephant Protection Initiative @EPIAfrica]

Thank you to Hon. Abbas Lawal, Minister of Environment @FMEnvng, @morakinyo1tunde, CEO of @ANI_Foundation, and Simi Shonibare, CEO of EWCT, for partnering with @EPIAfrica on the engaging webinar on Nigeria’s Forest Elephants. Become a friend of the EPI: https://t.co/6rTMe45x70

[Federal Department of Forestry @fmenvforestryng]

The EPI Foundation presents Nigeria’s Forest Elephants, a high-level webinar showcasing two short films on elephant conservation efforts in Okomu National Park and Itasin Forest, featuring contributions from stakeholders.
https://t.co/vKp81KT7Bo

[Elephant Protection Initiative @EPIAfrica]

Watch the recording of Nigeria’s Forest Elephants, a high-level webinar featuring two short films spotlighting conservation efforts in Okomu National Park and Itasin Forest, and conversations with leading voices in wildlife conservation and government: https://t.co/UBZ82jjjs9

[Mayor of Udi @mayorofudi]

@fmenvforestryng @ncfnigeria @CITES @WCS_Nigeria @ICCWC_WFC @UNODC_Nigeria @EPIAfrica @ANI_Foundation Different State Office hotlines should be made available.
You don't expect us to call Abuja, If we see people smuggling baby rock pythons in obudu.

[Federal Department of Forestry @fmenvforestryng]

Wildlife crime threatens Nigeria's forests, biodiversity, and future.

If you witness illegal hunting, wildlife trafficking, illegal logging, or possession of protected species, speak up.

One call could make the difference.
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[Arojinle @arojinle1]

Many Nigerian hunters are just decimating our wildlife without caution. To make matters worse, they upload the videos and people hail them. Now, they have introduced a new level of madness. They invite Europeans and Americans tourists to go on hunting expeditions with them. The questions remain

1. Are these huntings carried out in public or private properties

2. Does the government know that these people are coming into the country for reckless and undocumented trophy hunting?

[Africa Nature Investors Foundation @ANI_Foundation]

Rescued orphaned elephant highlights Nigeria's conservation fight in Okomu National Park

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[WCS Nigeria 💚 @WCS_Nigeria]

Camera Trap Picture of the Week

Recent sightings in the Oban division of Cross River National Park which is also a Biosphere Reserve.

Human elephant conflict, Loss of connectivity between elephant populations & continued habitat loss are major threats to elephants in Nigeria.

[Nacha Geoffrey @nacgeof]

Happy Children's Day from all of us @ANI_Foundation . In collaboration with the Nigeria National Park Service, we are very proud to share some of our story with the communities around Gashaka Gumti National Park. Through our education program, we have built classroom blocks and offices in three communities (Gashaka, Mayo-Selbe, and Serti) to help fill the gap. These schools also were provided with portable water and WASH facility. We are also happy to share that we are supporting with learning/teaching aids and ongoing training and support for the teachers. Additionally, 50 school kids from underserved communities get fully funded education scholarship