NIGERIAN-SOUTH AFRICA INTERVENTIONS ON WILDLIFE CONSERVATION IN HOST COMMUNITIES IN NIGERIA

Wildlife conservation to enhance tourism development has been a herculean task for most countries in sub-Sahara Africa largely due to funding, and international support programmes. In Nigeria, these requirements constitute challenges for the country towards the sustainable tourism development for the country economic transformation. Apparently, this has made Nigeria which is one of the emerging economies to seek for intervention from one of the BRICS member-South African to enhance wildlife conservation in host communities in Nigeria. The paper examined the level of awareness of wildlife practices among host communities in Nigeria, and, investigates challenges facing support zones programmes aim at Wildlife conservation in host communities. It also, examined the institutional interventions between Nigerian and South Africa on wildlife conservation towards tourism development in Nigeria. The paper is centered on descriptive research design which relied on primary and secondary data. The study concluded that there is apt need for sustainable collaboration between Nigeria and South Africa towards capacity building and knowledge sharing on wildlife conservation, which will be of immense contributions to tourism development in Africa.