In heavily forested Gabon, elephants are increasingly wandering into villages and destroying crops, angering the local ...

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 ...

The Congo Basin's tropical forests, known as the "planet's second lung" behind the Amazon, are shrinking by one to five percent a year due to illegal logging and mining, a study said.