Wildlife of Africa Conservation Initiative
A Special Wildlife Conservation, Research, Education, and Rescue Initiative
Scientific name: Enteromius clauseni (Thys van den Audenaerde, 1976) IUCN Status: Critically Endangered listed by IUCN in 2019 Population: insufficient Data (Olaosebikan et al., 2020) Distribution: Native to western Nigeria, Continue Reading →
Scientific name: Diceros bicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) IUCN Status: Critically Endangered listed by IUCN in 1996 and reassess in 2020 (Emslie and Adcock, 2016). Population: Estimated population of 5,495 individual Rhino Continue Reading →
Scientific name: Wolterstorffina parvipalmata (Werner, 1898) IUCN Status: Critically Endangered listed by IUCN in 2019 Population: insufficient data: decreasing population (IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2019) Distribution: Native to Nigeria Continue Reading →
Common names: Ursine Colobus or White and black Colobus Scientific name: Colobus vellerosus (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1834) IUCN Status: Critically Endangered listed by IUCN in 2019 Population: less than 1,500 Continue Reading →
Scientific name: Sousa teuszii (KÜkenthal, 1892) IUCN Status: Critically endangered as listed by IUNC 2017 Geographical range: Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea (Conakry), Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, The Continue Reading →
Scientific name: Cyclanorbis elegans (Gray, 1869) IUCN Status: Critically endangered as listed by IUNC 2016 Geographical location: Ghana, northern Togo, Central Nigeria (i.e. Lokoja), Niger River, southern Chad, northern Central Continue Reading →
Scientific name: Fundulopanchax scheeli IUCN Status: Critically endangered as listed by IUNC 2019 Geographical location: Endemic in Nigeria; They are distributed at the lower Cross River basin in Nigeria (Wikipedia), Continue Reading →
FACTS They were first discovered by Powell in 1993 according to Oates. (1994) in the Niger Delta region. They have a close relatives; Preuss’s red colobus monkey (Procolobus preussi) Continue Reading →
Common name: UPSIDE DOWN CATFISH Scientific name: Synodontis guttatus (Gunther, 1865) IUCN Status: Critically endangered as listed by IUNC 2019, Species population are unknown and may be extinct. Geographical Continue Reading →
FACTS They are once classified in the Genus Crocodylus (Crocodylus cataphractus), until MeAliley et al., (2000), reported that, they are different species and should be categorized in the Genus Mecistops Continue Reading →