When Richard Ruggiero first saw the gold mine from the air, he was reminded of one of Dante’s circles of hell. In the midst of Gabon’s Minkebe National Park—a huge, protected, 3,000-square ...

In the heart of the Congo Basin, the Tri-National Dja-Odzala-Minkebe (TRIDOM) Landscape covers nearly 10% of the rainforests (178,000 km²) in Cameroon, Gabon, and Congo-Brazzaville, and currently ...

Gabon: Ivory Poachers Slaughter 11,000 Elephants in Minkebe National Park African 'haven' for large herds of endangered elephant sees two-thirds of population wiped out ...

The population of forest elephants in Gabon’s Minkébé National Park—one of Central Africa’s largest and most important nature preserves—has declined by a ...

Gabon’s elephant population is dwindling, but a new tech-driven anti-poaching project may help slow the loss. A 2017 Duke University-led study found that more than 25,000 elephants in Gabon’s ...

Within Gabon's Minkébé National Park, poachers likely killed about 25,000 forest elephants for their ivory tusks between 2004 and 2014, according to a Duke University-led study in the journal ...

A quarter of the TRIDOM landscape is now under protection, encompassed by eleven protected areas. Of these, southern Cameroon’s Mengame Gorilla Sanctuary at 26,780 hectares is one of the smallest.

Cameroon ivory poachers are emptying Gabon's key nature reserve of elephants Forest elephant populations have crashed by 80% in one of Central Africa's most important nature reserves.

Researchers say poachers may have killed as many as two-thirds of the elephants in Gabon's Minkebe National Park in the past eight years. Results of an ongoing survey released by the government ...

The battle against poachers brings new challenges to Gabon's army, which has never fought in a war. Okouyi's men were disturbed when two years ago they killed a poacher for the first time. “It ...

In the heart of the Congo Basin, the Tri-National Dja-Odzala-Minkebe (TRIDOM) Landscape covers nearly 10% of the rainforests (178,000 km²) in Cameroon, Gabon, and Congo-Brazzaville, and currently ...