DAKAR (Reuters) - A lion has been spotted in Gabon for the first time in nearly 20 years, raising hopes the animals long feared extinct in the country could be returning, conservationists said on ...

Elephants are the largest land animals worldwide, used in tourism in several countries, and are often gentle to humans despite their gigantic sizes. However, the elephant population has fallen greatly ...

There is a special place in Africa where elephants, chimps and forest buffalo walk on white sand beaches and hippos swim in the sea. But that's not all that's remarkable about this stretch of Gabon's ...

The buildings are decrepit, the lawns unkempt, the patients left to shuffle alone and unwatched among weeds -- welcome to Gabon's sole psychiatric hospital. Built in 1982 on the outskirts of the ...

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 ...

A network of microphones has been deployed across the rainforests of central Africa to detect gunshots from illegal poaching of animals.

The female endangered chimpanzee used a stick to investigate a trail camera in a Gabon national park. Gabon ANPN/Panthera/Gaboma Multimedia and Production In 2015, a photograph of a lone male lion in ...

LIBREVILLE, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Gabon's junta has relaxed rules covering the rare kevazingo tree, allowing logging under certain conditions of a hardwood species that can take 500 years to grow to its ...

In the Nyanga Basin area (the Ramsar site of Setté Cama), National park rangers (ANPN), Fisheries brigade (DGPA) NGO staff (WWF) and Nyanga Basin area local community work to protect the habitat of ...