Peril and persistence define the path of Africa’s conservationists

Mongabay
Jun 3, 2025, 5:13 pm186 ptsTop
On the evening of May 9, 2019, conservationist and teacher Itakwu Innocent narrowly survived an assassination attempt outside his home in Kubong-Bette, a small farming village in the southeastern Nigerian state of Cross River. “Daddy! Gun!” Innocent recalls his son screaming seconds before a shot was fired.…

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