We often step into a student's story only to be unexpectedly drawn to another's, especially when that 'other' is a towering figure like a parent. This is what happened with Vidit Goel. Vidit had ...

The conversion of forests to cropland, particularly for small-scale agriculture, has steadily increased over the past two ...

It protects the forest. But those who sell it will be hunted by the spirits of the forest," warns Daniel Messa-Abaga, a guardian of Gabon's Kevazingo trees. The elderly man, born around 1930, sits on ...

travelled from Zimbabwe to discover Gabon and found, in the initiation, relief from anxiety and his "inner demons". "I feel good in my body, in myself," he said, sitting under a tree after the ...

Gabon is sometimes described as a “giant broccoli,” and from 3,500 feet up, it’s easy to see why. During a two-hour flight from the capital, Libreville, to a cattle ranch in the southernmost ...

“Gabon offers a truly wild experience ... To my relief, we didn’t spot any—though a squirrel leaping from a nearby tree did send my heart rate soaring. With Pongara Lodge’s cozy wooden ...

Others like Gabon have identified important areas for trees,” said Jean-Christophe Vié, director general of the Franklinia Foundation, which funded most of the global assessment. “Trees are ...

Wild gorillas in Gabon eat several of the same plants traditional ... In a new study, compounds in the bark of different trees showed potency against antibiotic-resistant strains of Escherichia ...

In the latest study, botanists recorded the plants eaten by western lowland gorillas in Gabon's Moukalaba-Doudou National Park. The bark of the trees - used in traditional medicine to treat ...

Gabon’s junta has relaxed rules covering the rare kevazingo tree, allowing logging under certain conditions of a hardwood species that can take 500 years to grow to its full height of 40 metres (130 ...

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Gabon’s junta has relaxed rules covering the rare kevazingo tree, allowing logging under certain conditions of a hardwood species that can take 500 years to grow to its full ...