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 ...

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 ...

A report in Science Magazine announcing an 80 percent decline of elephant population in Minkebe National Park between 2002 and 2014 comes at a critical time for the conservation world. Sadly it’s ...

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 promised something different: unvarnished, unfiltered, unpredictable. And it delivered, though not always in the ways I had envisioned. The day before that first elephant encounter, I had ...

The most comprehensive survey conducted of elephant numbers in the Central African nation of Gabon since the late 1980s has found elephants occurring in higher numbers than previously thought. The ...

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Poachers have killed more than 11,000 elephants in Gabon's Minkebe National Park rainforest since 2004, Gabon's government said on Wednesday, with the massacre fuelled by ...

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 ...

"We must provide help to Gabon so that we do not get to situations where the population rises up and wants to take justice into its own hands," Mibambani Ndimba said. Otherwise, "elephant heads will ...

Pongara National Prak, Gabon — 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 River ...