MAKOKOU, Gabon: At the entrance to the sprawling Ivindo national park in central Gabon, wildlife guards in paramilitary uniform scour a fisherman’s dug-out canoe, going through his bags of worn ...

Stopping the illegal wildlife trade is one of the most important and urgent parts of our work to protect iconic and threatened wildlife. We’re facing a global poaching crisis, which is threatening to ...

Gabon’s biodiversity is among the largest and most diverse wild ecosystems in the world, with nearly 90% of its territory covered in rainforests. The country is home to some of the world’s ...

To help safeguard public health, researchers from Gabon, Europe and Japan are developing the capacity to quickly detect emerging viral diseases by examining samples from people and wildlife.

In 2013, a study carried out by Gabon’s national parks agency, in collaboration with the WWF and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), revealed that poachers had killed around 11,100 ...