https://www.globalpresshub.com/index.php/BN <p><strong>BIONATURE</strong> (0970-9835 (Print), 0974-4282 (Online)) [NLM ID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/?term=0970-9835%5BISSN%5D"> 8300854</a>] aims to publish high-quality papers in any branch of BIOLOGY. Special priority will be given to manuscripts dealing with population genetics, plant morphology, cultural and physical anthropology, forestry, ecology and chromosomal and enzymatic variations. This journal follows OPEN access policy. All published articles can be freely downloaded from the journal website.</p> <p><strong>NAAS Rating 4.20 (2025)</strong></p> Global Press Hub en-US BIONATURE 0970-9835 https://www.globalpresshub.com/index.php/BN/article/view/2061 <p>The study was designed to investigate the preferred and poisonous plants species in a fragile ecosystem of Nigeria. One hundred and twenty (120) questionnaires were used to obtained information from camel owners. Samples of preferred and poisonous plant species were also collected for analysis. The study revealed four ranking plant species Leptadenia hastata (Yadiya), Faidherbia albida (Gawo), Hygrophila auriculata (Kayar Rakumi) and Balanites egyptiaca (Aduwa) as preferred and two ranking; Ipomoea asarifolia (Duman rafi) and Euphorbia lateriflora (Fid-da-sartse) as poisonous plant species. Proximate composition revealed H. auriculata to contained significantly the highest (P&gt;0.05) value of crude protein (24.96%) compared to others. Likewise there were significant (P&gt;0.05) variations in Anti Nutritional Factors (ANFs) and mineral components amongst plant species. Conclusively, the present study was able to provide some useful data on camel reproduction, water consumption and feeding stuff.</p> Ghude, M. I. Hamdein Mutwakel Mohammed, H. B. Maigandi, S. A. Copyright (c) 2025 Author(s). The licensee is the journal publisher. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 2025-09-10 2025-09-10 45 2 1 10 10.56557/bn/2025/v45i22061