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Several bird species can be seen here. The centre is a popular site for school excursions, and the shooting of music videos in Nigeria. The mammal life, although mostly nocturnal is sometimes seen. The small reptiles, and a range of snakes and lizards are also found here. Amphibian life includes a wide range of endangered species. There is a ...
The wildlife of Nigeria consists of the flora and fauna of this country in West Africa. Nigeria has a wide variety of habitats, ranging from mangrove swamps and tropical rainforest to savanna with scattered clumps of trees. About 290 mammal species and 940 bird species have been recorded in the country.
A present-day example of the over-hunting of a species can be seen in the oceans as populations of certain whales have been greatly reduced. Large whales like the blue whale, bowhead whale, finback whale, gray whale, sperm whale, and humpback whale are some of the eight whales which are currently still included on the Endangered Species List ...
The region is home to numerous endemic plant species, including rare and endangered ones. [18] The forests provide habitat for a rich variety of animals, such as primates (including the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee ), elephants, leopards, antelopes, reptiles, amphibians, and a vast array of bird species.
Of the mammal species in Nigeria, one is critically endangered, thirteen are endangered, sixteen are vulnerable, and ten are near threatened. One of the species listed for Nigeria can no longer be found in the wild. [1] The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for ...
The World's 100 most threatened species [1] is a compilation of the most threatened animals, plants, and fungi in the world. It was the result of a collaboration between over 8,000 scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC), along with the Zoological Society of London . [ 2 ]
The Red List of 2012 was released 19 July 2012 at Rio+20 Earth Summit; [17] nearly 2,000 species were added, [18] with 4 species to the extinct list, 2 to the rediscovered list. [19] The IUCN assessed a total of 63,837 species which revealed 19,817 are threatened with extinction.
The habitance of endemic and threatened primates species consisting of endemic Sclater's guenon (Cercopithecus sclateri), Nigerian white-throated guenon (Cercopithecus erythrogaster pococki), red-capped mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus) and the endangered Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) are prevalent in the Niger Delta ...