When considering a visit to Africa, few people think of Gabon. Exactly, this is the advantage of one of the most beautiful, ...

Gabon is home to 95,000 or 60-70% of all African forest elephants, which are facing dramatic decline elsewhere, a study published in Global Ecology and Conservation in December showed.

PONGARA NATIONAL PARK, Gabon (AP) — Loss of habitat and poaching have made African forest elephants a critically endangered species. Yet the dense forests of sparsely populated Gabon in the ...

He said the forest, which covers 88% of Gabon, is important for storing carbon, as well as for providing resources such as timber and traditional medicines.

Today Gabon’s jungles are a stronghold for forest elephants, along with mandrills, chimpanzees, gorillas, and endangered giant pangolins.

Last year, White castigated TotalEnergies over a new forest-based credits plan in Gabon. “They don’t have the rights” to that carbon, he said. ACDG retains the government’s support.

In heavily forested Gabon, elephants are increasingly wandering into villages and destroying crops, angering the local population who demand the power to stop the critically endangered animals in ...

Africa Forest protection summit underway in Gabon, some countries believe protecting forests needs to be profitable The absence of leaders from Brazil, Congo is likely to dampen the summit's momentum ...

This psychoactive plant could save lives—and everyone wants to cash in Iboga plants smuggled out of Gabon provide most of the world’s ibogaine, a drug that can help heal trauma and addiction.

Gabon is home to 95,000 or 60-70% of all African forest elephants, which are facing dramatic decline elsewhere, a study published in Global Ecology and Conservation in December showed.

Forest elephants are smaller than their cousins on the African savannah, but in Gabon their destructive raids of farmers' fields is having on outsized impact on support for the government and its ...