Nigeria: Rescued orphaned elephant highlights conservation fight

 

(Posted 08th June 2026)

 

Courtesy of African Elephant News

Africa News (France), June 7, 2026
As dawn breaks over Nigeria’s Okomu National Park, an exhausted wildlife caretaker prepares milk formula for Agbaibor, a months-old orphaned forest elephant rescued after wandering out of the rainforest alone. “The baby elephant has to take two litres of this per meal,” said Joshua Aribasoye, one of those responsible for feeding and monitoring the calf around the clock in a makeshift pen at a ranger outpost inside the park in southern Edo state.
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