Hippopotamus populations have declined by 30-50% over the last decade. This is an animal which is moving fast in the direction of extinction, yet despite a plea from 10 african...
Gabon
Around 1 quarter or 35,000 gorillas live in the country alongside 50,000 forest elephants and 64,000 chimpanzees. This despite being a relatively small country. However, this is perhaps not surprising, as a whopping 88% of the country remains forested.
In 2002, a total of 13 national parks were set up. Now it is questionable as to what is going to happen to all the forest outside the protected areas, but for the time being there does not appear to be much demand for reducing tree cover.
Given the high percentage of the country which remains forested, there is much space for private reserves and other national parks. However, the 13 national parks that were set up in 2002 do cover 10% of the country. Unfortunately, it is still the case that few people visit the country for its national parks. Part of the reason for this is the fact that they have gone for expensive low impact tourism, however, at the current time, there are too few tourists to sustain the business model. I hope to be able to list these places for booking as soon as possible, however, for the time-being they will app lie in our future destinations section. As soon as we have contacts to help your travel, these will move to wild places destinations.
Future Destinations - Gabon
African Forest elephant
Akanda national park
pongara national park
mandril moukalaba doudau antional park
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lope naitonal park
Mayumba national park
Minkébé National Park
Crystal mountain national park
Bateke national park
Monts Biragnou national park
waka national park
Mwagne national park
Gabon News
Despite only relatively recently being defined as a separate species forest elephants are rapidly disappearing and this could have incredible impacts on the rain forest where they live
It was only in 2010 the forest elephants were conclusively shown to be a separate species. Indeed up until this point it had been assumed that they were just different...
