Gabon has become the first African nation to receive a financial reward for protecting its forests as part of international efforts to fight climate change, the government announced Tuesday. Gabon has ...

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 holds about 95,000 African forest elephants, according to results of a survey by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the National Agency for National Parks of Gabon, using DNA extracted from ...

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 ...

Gabon, a Central African country slightly smaller than the state of Colorado, is home to one of the most pristine rainforests on the planet. During the two-week-long NASA campaign, a collaboration ...

At the Commonwealth meeting held in Rwanda between 20 and 26 June, Lee White, Gabon’s environment minister, said that his country wanted to “exploit its forests in a sustainable way to generate income ...

MOMBASA – A summit on how to protect the world's largest forests underway in Gabon is set to be dominated by the issue of who pays for the protection and reforesting of lands that are home to some of ...

A two-day conference to highlight the key environmental role and value of the world's rainforests got underway in Gabon Wednesday, backed by several leaders of tropical countries. "Forests potentially ...

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 ...

"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 ...