Invest In The Energy Sector Of Gabon
<p>In line with Gabon's aim to attract more oil and gas explorers, Africa Oil & Power (AOP) has launched the Africa Energy Series Special Report: Gabon 2020 as a resource for investors and companies
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Carryover effects of larval exposure to different environmental bacteria drive adult trait variation in a mosquito vector
<p>Conditions experienced during larval development of holometabolous insects can affect adult traits, but whether differences in the bacterial communities of larval development sites contribute to variation
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Gabon pledges to protect forests in regional drive to save Congo Basin
Gabon has signed an $18 million deal with donors to tackle deforestation and cut its carbon emissions by half as part of a wider plan to protect the tropical forests of the Congo Basin. One of the world's
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Gabon pledges ‘massive’ protected network for oceans
President Ali Bongo Ondimba announced to the UN Ocean Conference that the government of Gabon has created a network of marine protected areas the size of Costa Rica. Gabon pledges ‘massive’ protected
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Air pollution and the impact on public health in Africa
Air pollution has increased significantly in the last 25 years, and that’s having health consequences especially in low- and middle-income countries, according to a new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study
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Poaching drives 80 percent decline in elephants in key preserve
This is a small group of forest elephants in Gabon's Minkébé National Park. Poaching for the illegal ivory trade has reduced their numbers by 80 percent, according to a new study. Credit: John Poulsen,
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Poaching empties critical Central African wilderness of forest elephants
<p>Elephant populations are in peril everywhere, but forest elephants in Central Africa have sustained alarming losses in the last decade. Large, remote protected areas are thought to best safeguard forest
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Mahamat urged to place protection of elephants on AUC agenda, cut ivory trade
The new African Union Commission chairperson has been urged to place the African elephant crisis on the AU’s agenda. Chad, one of the Elephant Protection Initiative founder, ascended to the helm of
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Gabon aims to cut yawning poverty gap by ending its dependency on oil
With a third of its citizens below the poverty line, the African country urgently needs to diversify and is banking on palm oil production to create rural jobs Gabon is 85% rainforest. Flying over the
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ESF lists top 10 new species for 2016
A hominin in the same genus as humans and an ape nicknamed "Laia" that might provide clues to the origin of humans are among the discoveries identified by the SUNY College of Environmental Science and
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One missing, six injured after Gabon oil field blast
A worker for Sinopec's Addax Petroleum was missing after an oil tank exploded in Gabon, the company said on Sunday. Addax said the cause of the accident on Saturday, which occurred at the Obangue-East