As part of her commitment to biodiversity conservation and protected area management in Nigeria, a 3-day Training Workshop on Important Bird Area (IBA) Monitoring was organised by the Nigerian Conservation Foundation in Okomu National Park, Edo State for field staff of seven National Parks in Nigeria. The Important Bird Area (IBA) Monitoring Programme was initiated by the BirdLife International to protect a network of sites for their biodiversity richness and importance. As excellent indicators of the environment, bird diversity and assemblage are used to define and identify a site as an IBA, and ultimately recommend it for biodiversity conservation. Some of the IBAs overlap with protected areas in Nigeria like National Parks, Forest Reserves and Nature Reserves; which are home to some of Nigeria’s rarest biodiversity species such as White-Throated Monkey, Lowland Gorilla, Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee, African Elephant, Derby's Eland, Buffalo, Drill Monkey, Lion and rare species of birds like Ibadan Malimbe and Red-Casqued Hornbill. With funding from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), and support from A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institution (APLORI) and Nigerian National Parks Service, the training aimed at developing the capacity of field officers on basic bird identification and sampling techniques, standard data collation…