Nigeria’s Rachel Ikemeh wins Rolex Award for efforts to save rare red monkey

Mongabay
Sep 11, 2026, 5:51 am110 pts
Nigerian conservationist Rachel Ikemeh has been named the 2026 Rolex Award laureate, for her work with communities in the Niger Delta to protect the region’s ecology and the critically endangered Niger Delta red colobus monkey. The red colobus (Piliocolobus epieni), a monkey known as epieni by the region’s…

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