Many farmers across the western African nation of Gabon share the same grievance: waking up to trampled crops after nighttime ...
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 ...
More than 145,000 African forest elephants roam the rainforests of Africa, according to a recent population assessment.
Gabon promised something different: unvarnished, unfiltered, unpredictable. And it delivered, though not always in the ways I had envisioned. The day before that first elephant encounter, I had ...
Well in Gabon conservationists have begun trying to use the devices on elephants; tracking and drugging the animals, before attaching the high-tech gadgets in a bid to stop poachers and ivory ...
Forest cover is the main ecosystem of the country, with a rich and varied fauna. Gabon’s forest elephant herd is the largest in the world, with an estimated 95,000 individuals of this critically ...
In a bold move against poaching and illegal wildlife trade, Gabon is expected to burn its government-held ivory stockpile today. The decision comes at a time of intense poaching pressure in Central ...
"We must provide help to Gabon so that we do not get to situations where the population rises up and wants to take justice into its own hands," Mibambani Ndimba said. Otherwise, "elephant heads will ...
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 ...