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 ...

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, ...

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

With their colossal bodies and ponderous feet, elephants have never struck me as masters of hide-and-seek. But in the salad-bowl jungle of Loango National Park, in western Gabon, they proved to be ...