Geography and Nature

National Parks, Biosphere Reserves and Wildlife Conservation

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  1. Which federal agency under the Federal Ministry of Environment is responsible for the administration and protection of Nigeria's national parks?
  2. Which wildlife park in Bauchi State is renowned as Nigeria's most developed eco-tourism destination, hosting savannas and the Wikki spring?
  3. What is the largest national park by geographical land area in Nigeria, covering approximately 6,731 square kilometers?
  4. Which critically endangered primate subspecies survives with fewer than 300 individuals in Cross River National Park and contiguous Cameroon forests?
  5. Which national park in Niger and Kwara States was established in 1979 by uniting the Borgu and Zugurma Game Reserves?
  6. Which national park in northern Oyo State protects the historic archaeological ruins of Oyo-Ile alongside Guinea Savanna wildlife?
  7. Which national park in Edo State provides sanctuary to the endemic and endangered white-throated guenon monkey and forest elephants?
  8. Which primate species is strictly endemic to the tropical rainforest patches and sacred groves of southeastern Nigeria?
  9. What critically endangered bird species is endemic to southwestern Nigeria, first discovered in the secondary forest thickets of Ibadan?
  10. Which non-governmental environmental organisation was founded in 1980 by Chief S.L. Edu to champion biodiversity conservation in Nigeria?
  11. What urban conservation reserve on the Lekki peninsula in Lagos features Africa's longest elevated canopy walkway through coastal swamp forest?
  12. Which primate sanctuary in Cross River State was established by the NGO Pandrillus to rescue and breed endangered drills and orphaned chimpanzees?
  13. In which state is the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary located, protecting drill monkeys and winter roosts of the European barn swallow?
  14. Which sector of the Chad Basin National Park in northeastern Nigeria protects wetlands that flood seasonally from the Komadugu Yobe river system?
  15. Which vulnerable aquatic mammal inhabits the coastal lagoons, brackish creeks, and lower rivers of southern Nigeria?
  16. Which national park in Kaduna State preserves northern Guinea Savanna woodland and the scenic Dogon Ruwa water rapids?
  17. What endangered mammalian group in Nigeria is heavily targeted by international wildlife trafficking networks for its keratin scales?
  18. Which distinct chimpanzee subspecies, with fewer than 7,000 individuals surviving in the wild, is restricted to eastern Nigeria and western Cameroon?
  19. How many wetlands in Nigeria have been officially designated as Wetlands of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention?
  20. Which two administrative divisions comprise Cross River National Park, separated by community agricultural settlements?
  21. Which game reserve in Kano State was upgraded to protect savanna woodland along the Kano and Challawa river basins?
  22. What is the primary ecological purpose of establishing shelterbelts across northern Nigeria's frontline states?
  23. Which endangered mammal of the hippopotamus family was historically recorded inhabiting the freshwater swamps of the Niger Delta?
  24. Which forest reserve in Akwa Ibom State preserves the last remaining coastal freshwater swamp and lowland rainforest block in the state?
  25. What human activity represents the most pervasive immediate threat to primate and terrestrial wildlife populations across southern Nigerian forests?

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