Baby elephant rescue spurs unprecedented conservation drive in Nigeria

 

Posted 15th December 2025)

 

Courtesy of African Elephant News\\

 

Usman Aliyu, Enviro News Nigeria (Nigeria), December 12, 2025
Hours after dawn on Nov. 30, 2025, workers on a routine patrol at Okomu Oil Palm Company in Edo State noticed a figure wandering alone among the trees in Extension 1 of the plantation. At first, they thought it was a stray calf from a local livestock herd. But as they drew closer, reality struck–a frail, dehydrated elephant calf, barely two months old, struggling to stand, its ears drooping from exhaustion. The discovery sent shockwaves through Edo’s conservation circle.
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