Location: Lekki Peninsula, Eti Osa Local Government, Lagos.

Size: Covering an area of 78 hectares of land.

Lekki Conservation Centre (LCC) is one of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) projects. The centre is a conservation initiative meant for protecting wildlife in the coastal area of southwest Nigeria. This 26 years old centre has attracted a lot of national and global interests. It is serving as an educational, as well as resource centre to groups, educational institutions and tourists.

The project, apart from serving as a tourist attraction to both local and global visitors, it also promotes environmental protection and works against illegal game killing by the communities surrounding it. It is a centre for up-to-date research into environmental education and awareness creation. Nature lovers visiting or staying in Lagos have to visit LCC.

Why Visit Lekki Conservation Centre

Lekki Conservation Centre was solely established as a conservation institute for the southwestern Nigeria’s coastal mangrove resources and an information centre for environmental education and public awareness. Over the years, it has become an inspiring tourist attraction to the visiting students from various academic cadres. Through their visits to LCC, practical steps to conserving our God given natural resources have been learnt. It also serves as an environmental education resource centre for non-educated and semi-literate visitors. The wonderful flora and fauna resources found within the LCC do inspire a desire to support the cause of conservation in the hearts and minds of the visitors.

Over two million tourists from over 100 countries have visited LCC since inception. Most of NCF’s School Conservation Clubs were established following the impact of students/teachers’ visits to the Centre. LCC has achieved, and it is still achieving, the goal of educating the public, both young and old on the need to conserve natural resources. Government officials are not left out in the learning of nature conservation lessons from visiting the Centre.



Lekki Conservation Centre’s 78 hectares land area is divided into two sections: LCC Complex and the nature reserve. The LCC Complex is made up of striking multi-purpose Rotunda surrounded by four office blocks. The office blocks contain project staff offices, gift shop, canteen and the drivers’ office. The facilities of the LCC Complex were expanded in 1998 with the construction of the National Secretariat at the rear of the Complex.

The nature reserve is full of a range of vegetation types, namely: secondary forest, swamp forest and Savanna grassland.

A 2 km trail boardwalk was constructed in 1992 to aid the tourists/visitors view of the vast resources of the nature reserve which is encapsulated on a mangrove terrain. The side attractions along the trail are swamp outlook, bird hide, rest stops and the tree house.

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