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Africa Nature Investors Ani Foundation

Established in 2018, Africa Nature Investors (ANI) Foundation was founded by African professionals committed to bringing best-practice nature conservation to West Africa. We aim to catalyse the participation of African opinion leaders in conservation and to demonstrate that private sector investment in protected areas can enable them to become engines for development locally and nationally. In November 2017, ANI signed a Partnership Agreement with the National Park Service to protect and develop Gashaka Gumti National Park. This innovative agreement also established a framework for private sector investment into enterprises to support the protection of the park. ANI signed a second 30-year Partnership Agreement with NPS for the protection and development of Okomu National Park in May 2022. ANI also has a strategic partnership with the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) to engage the Nigerian government to reform national policy to tackle the illegal Wildlife Trade. ANI and EIA trains Nigerian Government agencies on legal framework and policy ii relation to the Illegal Wildlife Trade. We are also developing new endangered species legislation for Nigeria at the request of the Federal Ministry of Environment.