Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub ...

From pangolin scales and ivory to endangered birds, traffickers exploit porous borders and limited enforcement to smuggle ...

On January 15, a disturbing video surfaced on social media showing a leatherback sea turtle being dragged from the trunk of a ...

Nigeria has become a hub for pangolin trafficking and other illegal trading of wildlife. But authorities have been cracking down, recently arresting a Chinese national suspected of being a high ...

It is Saturday, the second day of “ The Herds” theatrical tour stop in Nigeria on a journey 20,000 kilometers (12,427 miles) from Africa's Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle with puppet animals.

Puppeteers move cardboard animals in canoes at the Makoko Slum in Lagos Nigeria, Saturday, April 19, 2025, as part of "The Herds," a moving theatre performance that started its journey from the ...

a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard puppet animals along with their puppeteers dressed in ...

The lagoon becomes a stage where animals return not in flesh, but in spirit, echoing lost connections between nature, humanity, and the forgotten fringes of urban life.