Center for Species Survival Nigeria launches programme of work

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Center for Species Survival Nigeria launches programme of work The IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) is driving global conservation efforts by fostering strategic partnerships to establish Centers for Species Survival.In August , Africa's first Center for Species Survival was created in Nigeria through a strategic partnership between the SSC and the A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, a centre of excellence for conservation training at the University of Jos, with . years of conservation capacity development experience in West Africa.Through this partnership, the Center for Species Survival Nigeria is poised to further enhance conservation capacity in West Africa through the application of IUCN tools and knowledge products, fostering partnerships, and scaling up actions to protect and restore biodiversity in Nigeria and across the region.The new Center initiated its programme of work in January , beginning with a preliminary review of all assessed species in Nigeria, identifying . species (c.% of assessed species in the country) that are currently categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species ( species as Critically Endangered,  as Endangered and  as Vulnerable).Most are plants (%), followed by fishes (%), mammals (%), and birds (%).Other groups include reptiles (%), amphi-

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