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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A man holds up an ivory tusk in Gabon, in this undated photo. Poachers have killed more than 11,000 elephants in Gabon’s Minkebe National Park rainforest since 2004, Gabon’s government said ...

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 ...

LIBREVILLE, (Reuters) - Poachers have killed more than 11,000 elephants in Gabon’s Minkebe National Park rainforest since 2004, Gabon’s government said ...