Lekki Conservation Centre

The Lekki Conservation Centre has been established over 20 years and is the Nigerian Conservation Foundation's foremost project site, spanning over 78 hectares on the renowned Likki Peninsula in Lagos. The NCF is an organisation dedicated to sustainable development and nature conservation. The foundation aims to preserve Nigeria's species and ecosystems, promote sustainability when using natural resources and advocates actions that minimise the impact on the environmental and prevent resource wastage.

The Lekki Conservation Centre is a product of the foundation's unrelenting commitment to conserving Nigeria's resources. The Centre is an initiative to protect the wildlife and mangrove forests found on Nigeria's South-West coastline from the threat of urban development and works tirelessly to raise environmental awareness and promote responsibility.

The Centre serves as a facility for research and education, mostly catering for groups of Tourists and School Children. Alongside promoting environment protection the centre works in the surrounding communities to prevent poaching.Lekki Conservation Centre was established in 1990 as biodiversity conservation icon and environment education centre.

Situated on Lekki Peninsula are of Lagos, the nature park which covers a land area of 78 hectare is one of Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) foremost conservation project sites.Lekki Conservation Centre which is normally a 15 minutes drive from Victola Island, is under the management of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation and it consists of swamp and savannah habitats.



Visitors are ushered into the reserve by a boulevard of coconut trees which leads to a well laid out car and Visitors Park. The reserve is a resort which provides the serenity and beauty of nature in a world class environment.There is a cone-shaped building which serves as the auditorium for lectures, conferences, and seminars.

First timers to the resort have the opportunity of seeing rare collection of beautiful pictures of endangered species of animals and plants arranged in glass stands around the oval hall. The reserve has 1.8km nature trail behind the main buildings in which you are ushered in by two wooden tracks.

A death-defying 21 metre-high tree platform known as the tree house where you can have a panoramic view of the reserve, visitor’s centre, picnic area and children’s playground among the trees and a bird hide overlooking a swamp/marsh which is home to crocodiles and monitor lizards.In the trees are Mona monkeys and other species of monkeys while the open grasslands are home to bushbucks, Maxwell’s duikers, giant rats, hogs, mongooses and an impressive variety of birdlife. Park rangers are available to be your guide into the reserve.