Gabon's National Parks
Gabon contains one of the richest and most biodiverse ecosystems in all of Africa, home to many rare and threatened species in the forests that cover eighty-five percent of its total surface area. However, Gabon had no protected areas, and extensive logging contracts that challenged this. Until September, 4th 2002. Just over a month before, on the first of August, three men proposed a network of parks to the President, El Hadj Omar Bongo and his ministers. These three men were British biologist Lee White had been working for the Wildlife Conservation Society as the…
