In 2015, Nigeria emerged as Africa’s key transit hub for the trafficking of pangolin scales and elephant ivory. According to the Environmental Investigation Agency, wildlife criminal networks in Africa have shifted their operations to West and Central Africa over the past decade, and Nigeria is implicated in the seizure of more than 30 tonnes of elephant ivory.
This week on GoWild, Arise News Environmental Correspondent, Laila Johnson-Salami, takes us inside Nigeria’s underground illicit ivory trade and analyses the country’s role in the illegal wildlife trade over the past few years.
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