Razed area next to Lac Bleu
Local Voices Spread Conservation Message in Gabon
"A group of nine dwarves lived here, and one day a dwarf dropped his ax in the water," says Ladislas Désiré Ndembet, standing on the shore of Lac Blue, or Blue Lake, in Gabon's southern province of Ngounié. So begins the local lore of the lake - one of Gabon's ecological wonders that Gabonese conservationists are trying to preserve.-
Gabon: Local Voices Spread Conservation Message
allAfrica, 12 October 2011
Although Gabon is a poster child for globalization's accelerated reach for resources, its president says he is committed to increasing support for national parks. Taking on the… Read more »
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Greening of Gabon, October 2011
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Gabon's Lac Bleu. According to local lore, animist spirits abound in the natural world in watercourses like Lac Bleu as well as in the chimpanzees, gorillas, forest elephants and hippopotamuses that ... see more »
