But in the salad-bowl jungle of Loango National Park, in western Gabon, they proved to be maddeningly good at it. One sticky afternoon last September, I followed my guide, Dimitri Mavoungou, through ...

“Crack, craack, craaaack,” booms the sound through the rain forest. As the yellow 60-ton bulldozers smash ahead, one 70-ft. okoume tree after another trembles, then teeters and finally topples. With ...

In difficult-to-reach places in Africa, LiDAR surveys are often prohibitively expensive and can take a long time to perform. Delays due to poor weather, long ferries and bureaucratic processes make it ...

There’s a new cat in town. For the first time since 1996, conservationists have proof of a lion roaming the wilds of the Central African country of Gabon. The lion—a healthy-looking, young male—was ...

The sky turns from indigo to ebony as the tropical night falls, and the train patiently thrusts through the jungle towards its destination, still hundreds of kilometres (miles) away. The trek has the ...

LIBREVILLE, Gabon -- Deep in a Gabonese jungle on the coast of Corisco Bay, one may hear birds, rustling trees and U.S. Army infantrymen running up and down hillsides calling out to one another, ...

LIBREVILLE, Gabon – When Pfc. Michael Ksander arrived at the French Jungle Warfare School here, he had no idea what to expect. "The swamps of Georgia are very different than the jungle here, ...

LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — The African Cup of Nations in Gabon will temporarily leave behind the beaches and palm trees of the capital Libreville and head deep into the jungle to Franceville in the far ...

Far from the well-trodden tourism path, the Central African nation of Gabon promises unparalleled access to nature at its ...

LIBREVILLE, Gabon -- Deep in a Gabonese jungle on the coast of Corisco Bay, one may hear birds, rustling trees and U.S. Army infantrymen running up and down hillsides calling out to one another, ...