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More than 90% of the lion’s original range has now been lost across Nigeria. The main threats facing lions today are: habitat loss and degradation, reduction of wild prey and retaliatory and other illegal killing of lions. Habitat loss has led to some populations becoming small and isolated, especially in West Africa. It is estimated that fewer than 50 lions survive in Nigeria. This decline is due to increasing human populations, and the spread of subsistence and commercial-scale agriculture; latterly, climate change is also playing a role, and corridors connecting populations are being lost due to the spread of development, agriculture, and of large infrastructure projects. This has led to some populations becoming small and isolated, especially in West Africa.
In Nigeria this precipitous decline is linked to severe depletion of their natural prey base due to hunting and habitat loss. With the loss of their natural prey lions have little option but to feed upon domestic livestock, the increase in human-lion conflict inevitably results in their direct persecution – typically by poisoning livestock carcasses. At the same time, human population growth and agricultural expansion is causing an unprecedented influx of nomadic livestock into protected areas as alternative grazing reserves disappear. During aerial censuses of Yankari in 2006 and 2011 cattle were by far the most abundant species recorded although the situation has improved considerably since WCS signed a co-management agreement with Bauchi State Government in 2014. Lions may also be killed for cultural reasons, including traditional use of lion parts for medicinal use in northern Nigeria. Without urgent and concerted action lions will continue to decline and may in time disappear from Nigeria completely.

Shot by Ajebeiber

The Elephant Grass is a major tropical grass growing on the Nigerian soil.
It is a versatile spices that can grow under a wide range of conditions and systems: dry and wet conditions.
It is a very valuable forage and very popular through the tropics. It helps farmers compete very efficiently with weed, thereby controlling weeds.
Among most of its goodness, it helps prevent river bank erosion. It is planted as hedgerows, to make fences and provide efficient
windbreaks for crops and houses. It is greatly used for erosion control, methane production and mostly a good forage for livestock consumption. 
This shot was taken in Lagos State.