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

Within Gabon's Minkébé National Park, poachers likely killed about 25,000 forest elephants for their ivory tusks between 2004 and 2014, according to a Duke University-led study in the journal ...

The Minkébé National Park, in turn, is home to Gabon’s biggest elephant population and to probably the largest forest elephant population in Africa. “At least until these data came out,” she said.

Forest elephant in Gabon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. Mongabay: For our readers who are not familiar with the environment in which you work, can you describe the status of the conservation ...

RANGE: The majority of remaining forest elephant populations occur in Central Africa, in the countries of Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo, Central Africa Republic and ...

African savanna elephants have declined by 70%, while forest elephants have plummeted by over 90%, driven by ivory poaching, habitat loss, and human population growth. Southern Africa ...

But Gabon hopes to show how to build an industry ... it could encroach on crucial habitat for great apes, forest elephants, and other threatened species. Photograph by PASCAL MAITRE IndonesiaIn ...