Gabon's government and a coalition of donors have signed an agreement aimed at protecting 34,000 square km (13,000 square ...

Gabon is home to 60-70% of all African forest elephants Farmers held widespread anti-elephant protests in 2021 Authorities are launching new initiatives to ease human-elephant conflict PONGARA ...

Gabon partners with international donors in the 'Gabon Infini' initiative to protect 34,000 sq km of Congo Basin rainforests. The $180 million plan will finance national parks, combat elephant ...

Strict conservation policies have made Gabon "the refuge of forest elephants", Lea-Larissa Moukagni, who heads the human-wildlife conflict programme at the National Agency of National Parks (ANPN) ...

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 Congo ...

Gabon is a country blessed by nature. With over 800 km of coastline along the Atlantic Ocean, tropical rainforests covering 85% of its territory and a wealth of minerals, Gabon is the most prosperous ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Human-elephant conflict in Gabon is a growing and serious problem for rural people. Some people cannot farm anymore - the elephants are eating so much of their crops. So if we cannot provide ...