Companies made commitment at launch of the "Sustainable Forest Management Declaration." Libreville, Gabon, June 22 – 12 Chinese forestry companies managing about 5 million hectares of forest ...

Gabon has become the first African country to receive payment for reducing carbon emissions by protecting its rainforest. The UN-backed Central African Forest Initiative (Cafi) has handed over $ ...

On 26 September, the President of Gabon – His Excellency Ali Bongo Ondimba - took an important step towards sustainable forest management by declaring that as of 2022, all forest concessions operating ...

(CN) – Forest elephants living in a Central African “sanctuary” are being picked off rapidly by illegal poachers, and the population has dropped by more than 80 percent in a decade. Researchers report ...

Gabon’s forests are part of the highly-threatened Congo basin rainforest, and the country is home to a wealth of biodiversity ...

In Gabon, on central Africa’s west coast, rainforest covers about 80% of the country, and a significant proportion of the population lives in close contact with the forest. As the world has ...