Photograph by Ami Vitale The giraffes we have chased for a week are the descendants of some 50 animals that made their way to the West African country of Niger in the late 1980s, when drought and ...

Calls for regulationA ruminant expert, Mr Tunmise Olagbaju, has lamented scarcity of West African dwarf goat for breeding, stating that barbeque (Asun) merchants are always buying the goats in bulk ...

Two Goliath beetle species are in grave danger because cocoa farming has wiped out their forests and they’re being sold on ...

There’s also the forest buffalo, the West Africa savanna buffalo ... a virus that’s nearly always fatal to hoofed animals—to Africa, and it caused buffalo numbers to crash across the ...