WACN is a not-for-profit organisation headquartered in the United Kingdom and Nigeria with a focus on adequately securing, restoring, and making wilderness areas self-sufficient in the long-term.

The concept and vision for West African Conservation Network was born by our founder, businessman Patrick Ogbonnia Egwu, who’s passion for wildlife emanates from childhood. As an organisation, our ambition is to collaborate with governments and turn-around the fortunes of depleted wilderness areas into restored wildlife hotspots over time.

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A herd of West African kob (Kobus kob kob) at the Kainji Lake National Park in northwestern Nigeria. Kob are “impala like” in stature – perhaps West Africa’s answer to the impala, and they bear great resemblance to the lechwes of lower central Africa.

Photo credit : © Abubakar Ringim.

Our vision as an organisation is to secure, restore, protect, and turn-around the fortunes of depleted or suppressed government gazetted wilderness areas so that they eventually become self-sufficient over time.

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Tantalus monkey (Chlorocebus tantalus), Kainji Lake National Park, Nigeria.

Photo credit : © Abubakar Ringim.