Around the same time, bush-meat sales increased in Malabo. As in much of West Africa, bush meat, from wild animals in the forest, particularly from monkeys, is prized as a delicacy, even though it ...

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Relocating animals to create new populations could ... whose range at the turn of the last century spanned all of West Africa, from the coast of Senegal to Nigeria. Framed against the Nairobi ...

Animal welfare inspectors have uncovered a "scene of unimaginable suffering and neglect" at a large-scale tiger breeding ...

The populations of some of Africa’s most iconic wildlife have ... aside more land to connect with other preserves to allow wild animals to roam freely. John Yang reports.

Brass-workers in the kingdom of Ife made brass figures of gods, humans and animals. In the Asante kingdom, goldsmiths made ornaments to show their king was rich. This map shows Mansa Musa with an ...