(Posted 16th October 2026)
Courtesy of African Elephant News
| The Independent (Nigeria), October 14, 2026 |
| Deep within the Okomu National Park, a young elephant rescued last year has taken a step that Africa Nature Investors (ANI) Foundation has been working toward for about ten months, following the rescue of the orphaned baby elephant from an oil palm plantation bordering the park. The baby elephant walked to a new enclosure far from any human settlement, a significant milestone in Nigeria’s conservation sector, with conservationists describing it as the first successful effort to return an orphaned elephant to its forest habitat in Nigeria’s history. |
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