🍀🍀🌳🌳🍀☘️🍁🍂🎋✨✨💥💥 For more than 3 years, scaling intermittent hurdles and smashing target goals, share our pleasure at seeing our planted #trees bear fruit, grow tall and prove resilient. @IITAForestCenter @NigerianBreweriesPLC #OgunStateMinistryofForestry #olokomeji

💥💥🍁🍁🎋🎋💥💥🍀☘️ It was a huge delight to receive the august Dr John Peacock, one of the founding fathers (now grandfather🤗) of margarita weinfurter Forest Center, alongside Prof David Ladipo (a great grandfather of us 🤗). It was truly an emotional family reunion with proud

🌳IITA Forest Center Center at #Olokemeji receiving our donor representatives for the #AFR1OO #reforestation project. 🌳Our donors are pleased to #experience #live the growth and progress of the #trees planted. And much more, the impact made on local community members. 🌳Under the sun

New publication alert! Congratulations to the gentle giant himself....

Hildegardia barteri a fast-growing, deciduous tree that begins to shed its leaves at the onset of the dry season (Late October). The beautiful red scarlet flowers that serve as an attraction to sunbirds, bees and other nectar-loving insects blossom between December and February.

📢New paper Trends in Ecology & Evolution: The importance of biome in shaping urban biodiversity! doi.org/10.1016/j.tree… Urbanization research is biased towards temperate biomes, neglecting drylands! Dryland cities support higher relative species richness than temperate cities. Irrigation

#Baphia nitida (Irosun) is fruiting at IITA Forest Center #THP! 🌳 🌺 Native to West-Central Africa, it’s used as a hedge, medicine for newborn care, and a source of natural dye. It’s regenerating naturally in the wild @IITAForestCenter! 🌿 #Bnitida #Trees #ForestRestoration

In loving memory of Capt. David Sewell, Drs. Peacock & Bramel gave students a chance to camp, learn & connect with nature at our Forest Center. 🌿💚 A beautiful gift that inspires! #ForestCenter #IITA #NatureForAll #Camping #EducationForAll #CommunityFirst #NatureLovers

A Green Legacy Takes Root! 🌱✨ 1,000 seedlings planted in Aiyepe-Ijebu with LAPO + IITA Forest Center 🌍🙌 With HRH Oba Michael Kolawole Adekoya, leaders & youth, we’re growing hope & climate action! 🌿💫 #ClimateAction #Afforestation #Sustainability #IITA #IITAforestcenter

🐦🌿 Calling all bird & nature lovers in Nigeria! Help us improve the Ibadan Bird Club by sharing your thoughts in this quick 7-min survey ⏱️ 👉forms.gle/T3Uorh7uKTbRoA… Let’s flock together, act together for conservation 💚 #Birdwatching #Conservation #Nigeria 7-minute

Every 3 months, we monitor birds & marvel at nature! 🌿🐦 From ancient Iroko trees to freshly hatched birds, join our quarterly adventures! #natureconnection #wildlife #birdmonitoring #iitaforestcenter #iita

🌳🌳Nature’s pharmacy 🌿🌿 The #Irere tree, conserved @IITAForestCenter protects people & ecosystems—healing, shading & sustaining life. #IITA #ForestConservation #CarapaProcera #TreeOfLife #Biodiversity

🦅Enjoy some of the views from the last IBC held last Saturday, September 2025. You can join us with your family and friends every last Saturday of the month at the IITA Campus.💚 #IITA #iitaforestcenter #NatureLovers #ibcまつり

Growing mushrooms in buckets is a thing! 🎨🍄 It's sustainable, low-maintenance and cost-effective. And the best part... It's fooooood!!!!! #mushroom #homegrown #iitaforestcentre #iita #Sustainability

Mr. Kunle Olasupo represented IITA Forest Center at Plateau in a two-day training on conserving Encephalartos barteri ssp. allochrus with Crescendo Africa, empowering locals to protect biodiversity & build livelihoods.💚 #IITA #Conservation #Cycads #sustainability #encephalartos

🌶️ Meet Piper guineense—the West African pepper that spices your food and heals! 💚 Packed with bioactive compounds that brings flavor, healing, and heritage together. 🌿💚 #IITAForestCenter #PiperGuineense #Uziza #NatureForHealth #NatureIsMedicine

How does urbanisation change bird health in Africa? New research shows urban birds carry more Haemoproteus parasites, while Plasmodium thrives more in non-urban habitats. Explore the findings (open access): doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs… #AvianResearch #UrbanEcology #Biodiversity

📊 🌿 Science meets conservation impact! 📊🌍 Follow link below to read the Guardian’s release on #IITAForestCenter’s scientific contributions to the designation of #EmeraldForestReserve as a #KeyBiodiversityArea. guardian.ng/business-servi… #KBA #EFR #news

Bridging the gap between the lab and the wild! 🌿 Today, lecturers from the Dept of CPEB, University of Ibadan, joined us for a forest walk at the IITA Forest to explore biodiversity and environmental conservation firsthand. #IITA #ForestConservation #CPEB #UI #NatureWalk

🌿 Meet Petersianthus macrocarpus (African walnut) 🌳 Now propagated at IITA Forest Center 🌱 ✔️ 14–21 day germination 📈 ~70% success rate 🌳 Grows up to 40m 🔗 forestcenter.iita.org/petersianthus-… #ForestConservation #RestoreNature #IITAForestCenter