NATIONAL PROFILE 2011-2012 - ICYE

Bio-Diversity in NigeriaNigeria is important for Bio-Diversity. Nigeria possesses a wide range of ecosystem. These range from tropicalrain forest on the central, eastern and Northeastern highlands and wetlands in the coastal and inland regionsto the sub-Saharan in the North. Nigeria supports a wide species of animal and birds, which cannot be found inany part of the world. It is widely believed that the areas surrounding Calabar, Cross Rivers State contain theworld’s largest diversity of butterflies. This led to the establishment of sanctuaries and parks in areascharacterised by high level of biological diversity, such endangered species are the forest elephant, low landgorilla manatee, drill chimpanzee and the red-headed white fowl can be located in these areas.