With camera traps, ANI & the National Park Service learns more about poorly studied parts of Gashaka Gumti National Park. We are excited by wildlife we are finding including larger herbivores & predators. 1. Forest Buffalo 2. Spotted Hyena 3. Forest Buffalo 4. Giant Forest Hog

Great news from South Sudan where ECF partner, African Parks, has completed a successful wildlife collaring operation that included elephants! We’re proud to have supported African Parks' important work in South Sudan since 2022, made possible by our generous donors.

World Donkey Day, celebrated on May 8th annually, is a time to honor the hardworking and enduring donkey. The day is also meant to raise awareness about their welfare and advocate for their humane treatment worldwide.

World Bee Day is dedicated to highlight the vital role of bees and other pollinators in ecosystems, food security, and sustainable development. The day aims to raise awareness of the threats facing bees and the importance of protecting them.

ANI & National Park Service-Nigeria are working on UNESCO World Heritage Site listing for Gashaka Gumti NP as a mixed site presenting its biodiversity assets & cultural heritage assets. The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) conducted a cultural heritage survey that will inform the UNESCO nomination dossier

On 17/18 June, Africa Nature Investors Foundation & WCS Nigeria 💚 supported a workshop in hosted by Environment Ministry and National Park Service-Nigeria for Nigerian stakeholders to prepare for a 2nd Nigeria-Cameroon meeting on establishing transboundary protected areas (see map below) to be held in Douala later this year.

Big Life was recently featured on Expedition Unknown! Explore human-wildlife conflict and conservation. Episode 2 of Season 15 is streaming now on Max, Discovery+, and more. Did you watch? Share your thoughts! More info: discovery.com/shows/expediti…

ANI IS HIRING for a Monitoring, Evaluation, Adaptation & Learning (MEAL) Specialist to support our project in Gashaka Gumti National Park. This would involve establishing the necessary monitoring and evaluation systems for ANI’s management activities and various grant programmes.

#Switzerland’s glaciers hit #GlacierLossDay weeks early this year due to record-low snowfall. “Snowmelt began in May,” says ETH Zurich’s Andreas Bauder. Alarm bells for the #Alps. #ClimateCrisis #glaciers tinyurl.com/2jper78m

476M Indigenous Peoples safeguard 22% of Earth’s land & most of its 7,000 languages. Excluding them from AI design is unacceptable. AI must protect rights, not exploit them. United Nations UN Environment Programme #IndigenousPeoplesDay #AI

Happy World Elephant day! Africa Nature Investors Foundation & National Park Service-Nigeria are working to protect a precious population of African Forest elephants in Okomu National Park in Edo State, Nigeria. Below is a camera trap picture of them just taken a few days ago.

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Yes, there are forests elephants in Okomu National Park, Edo state and they have continued to thrive as a result of the partnership between National Park Service-Nigeria and Africa Nature Investors Foundation

Nacha Geoffrey National Park Service-Nigeria Africa Nature Investors Foundation 👏👏 Kudos to the Africa Nature Investors Foundation & National Park Service-Nigeria for the vital work you do safeguarding Africa's Forest elephants. I visited Omo Forest Reserve, home to these elephants, two weeks ago for a reporting trip. I look forward to exploring Okomu National Park soon!

Welldone guys. The value of elephant collaring cannot be overemphasized

Gashaka Gumti, one of Nigeria’s first nature-based carbon initiatives, among four selected from over 100 African projects to get UK support. The project will deliver tangible benefits to the local communities around Gashaka Gumti National Park and protect the park itself.

UK backs Nigeria’s Gashaka Gumti carbon project punchng.com/uk-backs-niger… Germany in Nigeria Nacha Geoffrey EU in Nigeria 🇪🇺🇳🇬 UK in Nigeria🇬🇧🇳🇬 Environment Ministry Michael Simire Bezos Earth Fund NYU Primatology Australian High Commission, Abuja 🇦🇺 Jeff Morgan Adamawa State Acresal Panthera NCCC Agbu Kefas ⏩ African Leadership University IUCN

ECF funded investigations have exposed a Taiwanese and Chinese-run orphanage in Malawi as a centre of child exploitation & abuse, linked to a Chinese criminal network, with children groomed as wildlife traffickers. 🔗 Environmental Investigation Agency U.S. blog bit.ly/47kdC0R 📸Malawi Police

HELP SAVE THIS BABY ELEPHANT Two weeks ago, Africa Nature Investors Foundation rescued an orphaned baby elephant near Okomu National Park. Raising a baby elephant is expensive! They consume 60kg of milk power a month. Please donate to help feed this baby elephant by giving: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-a-baby-…

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and wonderful 2026 from all of us Africa Nature Investors Foundation