Nigeria’s Vanishing Forests and Elephants 🇳🇬🌳🐘 [11 min]

Let’s Start A Conversation ! 💬 #9 – Biological & Ecological News

Video published on my YouTube channel as part of the ‘Let’s Start A Conversation‘ playlist, that shares biological and ecological news in a fun and concise manner.

With one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, Nigeria is losing its forests so fast that if nothing is done, there won’t be anymore forests left by 2050. And without forests, where will the critically-endangered forest elephants go ?

Hungry for more biological and ecological news ? Check the ‘Let’s Start A Conversation‘ playlist on my channel !

🔗 For a deeper dive, here are the sources and references ! Meanwhile, you can :

• Read the two articles on The Conversation website, titled: ‘Nigeria’s forests are fast disappearing – urgent steps are needed to protect their benefits to the economy and environment‘ and ‘Nigeria risks losing all its forest elephants – what we found when we went looking for them‘
• Watch the videos from @UNEP on how bees can protect farmers from elephants and on how to protect the forests of Mt Kenya