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Saving Gabon's rainforest
The President of Gabon set up a network of national parks in 2002 to protect the country's forests from logging and help save the habitats of its rare creatures.
In 2002 Omar Bongo, the president of Gabon, set up a network of national parks to protect the country's forests from logging and help save its population of forest elephants. He was responding to pressure from campaigners worried by a surge in logging over the previous decade. Among them was a British biologist called Lee White, who went on to become Gabon's Minister of Forests and the Environment. Lee White talks to Laura Jones.
Photo: A forest elephant in Gabon (Getty Images)
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