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Filmed this morning by Jean Louis Kakoua Atsima, the DTA at
@Parcs_Gabon
, this elephant is feeding on aquatic plants in the Ivindo River above Koungou Falls - in the Ivindo World Héritage Site.
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Gabon's Mayumba National Park is host to the world's largest population of nesting leather back turtles. This one showed up early in the season this afternoon in downtown Libreville! She laid 96 eggs in full view of the turtle friendly population before heading back to sea.
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Our paper showing that giant pangolins and bats cohabit in underground burrows is somewhat over-shadowed by its implications for coronavirus transmission. What I find awazing is that the burrows go up to 25m underground!
@StirUni
@Parcs_Gabon
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Photos from yesterday in the Plateau Bateke National Park in SE Gabon. Thanks to
@PresidentABO
@Parcs_Gabon
@ForetmerGOUVGA
@AspinallCharity
@DamianAspinall
@PantheraCats
@PhilippHenschel
@USFWSIntl
@RainforestTrust
@WCSGabon
the park and its wildlife are coming back.
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I shedded a tear for HRH Prince Philip - a true silverback of the Conservation world. As President of
@WWF
he came to Nigeria when I was working to create Cross River and Okomu NPs and to Gabon in 1999, 3 years before we created the network of 13 NPs. Thank you for your passion!
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Two important papers published in Nature and Current Biology show that Bat and Pangolin Coronaviruses may be the source of SARS-CoV-2 which causes
#COVID19
. Gabon has signed a law to stop trade in bats and pangolins as a precaution.
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It is an honour to be reappointed Minister of Water, Forests, the Sea and Environment charged with the National Climate Plan and Land-use Planning in a new government lead by Prime Minister
@BilieByNze
under the authority of
@PresidentABO
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President Emmanuel Macron walked in the Raponda Walker Arboretum - an “initiation” - before the Ine Forest Summit in Libreville
#Gabon
. I think it is safe to say he is now an ambassador for Africa’s equatorial rain forests alongside
@PresidentABO
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Djongo, one of the gorillas reintroduced into the Bateke Plateau National Park by
@AspinallCharity
and
@Parcs_Gabon
says hello to the Senior Warden, Jean Louis Kakoua Atsima, who filmed this salute. ANPN is taking special measures to protect apes during the Coronavirus outbreak.
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Urban biodiversity in Libreville,
#Gabon
- we found this python in my garden this morning!
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How to pay tribute to my big hearted friend of over 20 years, my “grand frère” Michael Moussa, who passed away today? He brought Gabon into the Commonwealth, fought for Nature &promoted Gabon in the four corners of the World. When the sadness has passed I will remember his smile!
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Our thoughts are with the team in Virunga National Park for the loss of their brave colleagues. Our deepest sympathy to their families and friends. Gabon’s rangers mourn with you!
@Parcs_Gabon
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Gabon is re-inventing itself right now - but the sunset in Lopé this evening shows that Gabon is the chosen land. The sun will keep rising on the “vert - jaune - bleu” and as a nation we will continue to be the “pays de dialogue” not war. The Last Eden.
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This was filmed in the Bateke Plateau National Park yesterday. It may seem strange, but this type of behaviour tells us these elephants are not poached. If they were they would flee in terror. Thanks to
@Parcs_Gabon
and
@PresidentABO
wildlife is safe again.
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Only in
@AmazingGabon
do
@you
see elephants on the beach! Jannie the manager of
@GabonSafaris
was our fishing in Pongara National Park this afternoon (no clients since COVID-19!) and was joined by this handsome young chap.
@Parcs_Gabon
@ForetmerGOUVGA
@PresidentABO
@AGATOUR1
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Pourquoi acheter les girolles de France à 42.900 FCFA / kg quand on a des tons et des tons dans la forêt de l’Ogooué Ivindo? J’ai reçu le trésor à droit hier depuis Makokou! Qu’on aide nos populations à valoriser les produits forestiers non ligneux!!
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Human elephant conflict in Gabon at the research station in Lopé World Heritage Site - a naughty elephant stealing the soap earlier this evening!
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Our
@Parcs_Gabon
pangolin team in Lopé lead by David Lehman captured and tagged this impreasive 42.2 kg male giant pangolin. His movements will now be tracked shedding light on the ecology of this little known nocturnal species.
@ForetmerGOUVGA
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Today Gabon completed a $500 million Blue Bond, with
@nature_org
and
@DFCgov
that will generate over $160 million for management of marine protected areas and fisheries, including an endowment that will generate over $4 million per year in perpetuity.
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I just spoke on the
@EPIAfrica
virtual summit on "saving the forest elephant" alongside
@sharon_ikeazor
,
@DoretJules
and
@JohnEScanlon
. Gabon has the second biggest population in Africa, estimated at 95,000, including beach combing forest elephants like this in Pongara and Loango
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Wonderful to receive these images filmed by the
@Parcs_Gabon
team Momba Bai. In the TRIDOM landscape that has been ravaged by poaching it is exceptional to see elephants so calm in a bai during the day. 24/24 protection by ANPN to thank!
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82 baby leatherbacks from the
@Parcs_Gabon
hatchery in Mayumba - home to the biggest nesting population on earth!
@AmazingGabon
@ForetmerGOUVGA
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Quite an evening in Wonga Wongué Presidential Réserve. Photos by Norbert Pradel; éléphants safe thanks to
@Parcs_Gabon
and
@PresidentABO
.
@AmazingGabon
at its best.
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A baby gorilla has been born in the wild for the first time to parents born on captivity in Europe, who were returned to Gabon from the UK. The baby was born in Batéké Plateau National Park to mother Mayombe and father Djongo, under a programme run by the
@AspinallCharity
.
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Sea Shepherd are back in Gabonese waters to help the Navy, the Fisheries Department and the National Park’s Agency to track and arrest pirate fishing boats. We will not allow pirates to plunder our marine resources.
@Parcs_Gabon
@seashepherd
@biendimaganga
Sea Shepherd is back on patrol in Gabon to help prevent illegal fishing in Africa’s largest Marine Protected Area:
#PoachersBeware
#OpAlbacore
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John Kerry
@ClimateEnvoy
and I agreed that we cannot win the battle against climate change without keeping the
#NatureBasedSolutions
Congo Basin Forests standing. Gabon and the USA have a long tradition of working together on tackling climate change.
@PresidentABO
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The
@Parcs_Gabon
/
@PantheraCats
team working on the corridor between Mwagne and Ivindo National Parks photographed this hyena deep in the rain forest. Well done
@PhilippHenschel
and Christopher Orbell from Panthera and Landry, a USTM student doing his Masters research with them!
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Africa has woken up - or at least
#Gabon
has! We created 20 marine protected areas last year covering 27% of our EEZ and we have a long-term partnership with
@seashepherd
to fight IUU fishing.
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We honoured our late friend Michael Moussa Adamo at the One Forest Summit. His drive and enthusiasm at the beginning laid the foundations for the summit’s success. If only he could have been there with us.
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I spent the weekend with
@gabonsafaris
in Akaka, Loango National Park, which at this time of year is transformed into « Gabon’s Okavango ». As the waters fall hundreds of forest elephants move in to feast on succulent grass and papyrus. The area is protected by
@Parcs_Gabon
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Speaking at the
#UNGA
@PresidentABO
calls for a net carbon sequestration market to reward countries like
#Gabon
who have already gone beyond net carbon neutrality. Gabon absorbs over 100 tons of CO2 net every year.
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It is an honour to have been named Minister of Forests, Environment and the Sea by President Bongo ONDIMBA. Now to work!
Au Gabon, 48 heures après avoir été demandé par Ali Bongo, un nouveau gouvernement surprise de 29 membres a été nommé - La Libreville
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Just 30 minutes from Libreville and we are surrounded by humpback whales.
@AmazingGabon
at its best.
@Parcs_Gabon
are out on the water and in the forest every day protecting our natural heritage.
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For 30 years we guessed that the archaic stone tools found by Richard Oslisly and Bernard Peyrot in Lopé were about 400,000 years old. A new study has dated them at between 620 - 850,000 years old - the oldest signs of human ancestors in the Congo Basin.
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These photos from
@PantheraCats
@PhilippHenschel
in Plateau Bateke National Park show how nature has recovered thanks to the efforts of
@Parcs_Gabon
and
@AspinallCharity
. Wildlife is spilling out of the forest patches into the savannah where 20 years ago there were just poachers.
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We continue to battle IUU fishing with support from
@seashepherd
- we have a team including navy, fisheries and parks staff on board the Bob Barker.
@biendimaganga
@Ambassador_MMA
@Parcs_Gabon
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Félicitation à
@Parcs_Gabon
qui lutte pour préserver les éléphants de forêt. Grâce à leurs efforts le Gabon est un sanctuaire pour plus que la moitié des éléphants de forêt au monde.
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Gabon completed the UNFCCC process validating 90 million jurisdictional REDD+ emission reductions plus an additional 97 million HFLD REDD+ credits for 2010-18. In fact, we net removed just over a billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere during this period.
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Congratulations to the Chinese president and the Canadian hosts of COP15 CBD. The Kunming-Montreal agreement will guide efforts to preserve, restore and sustainably manage biodiversity through 2030 to 2050. All parties committed to increased ambition. A good result for the Planet
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In troubled times nature is there to inspire us. Sunset in Wonga Wongué yesterday! We need to nurture nature to maintain the integrity of our planet.
@AmazingGabon
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Pirates and IUU fishermen look out - our marine commando consisting of Gabonese navy, fisheries and parks staff and Sea Shepherd are patrolling our EEZ.
@biendimaganga
@MoussaAdamo
@Parcs_Gabon
@seashepherd
@PresidentABO
@OssoukaRaponda
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I am in Dubai visiting Ecoway, who make a plastic alternative by heating manioc (cassava) starch. The resulting bags are truly biodegradable, eliminating the micro-plastic issue.
#Gabon
is currently working to pass a law to ban single-use plastics and this is a viable alternative
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Chimps at the beach? Only in
@AmazingGabon
!!
See the Max Planck Loango Chimpanzee youtube site for more amazing images.
@Parcs_Gabon
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A baby giant pangolin rides its mother’s tail in Lopé. Pangolin’s are in the news because of Coronovirus. Left alone they are a key component of the rain forest ecosystem.
@Parcs_Gabon
and
@ecofac6
keep these pangolins safe!
@PantheraCats
@StirUni
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IUCN has split the African elephant into two species - the savanna, (Loxodonta africana) and forest (Loxodonta cyclotis) elephant. The forest elephant is considered critically endangered because of the poaching crisis. Can we save them?
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Congratulations to our Lopé team who put the first gps tag ever on a Giant Pangolin last week. He was a 38kg male sedated after an epic capture that involved 4 researchers climbing into his labyrinth of burrows, which went up to 15m underground. He went 1.5km in the first night!
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Pour les réseaux sociaux, avant tout delire, j'annonce que je pars sur Londres pour le ministériel pre-COP26 à l'invitation du gouvernement britannique. Je vais présider les discussions sur l'Adaptation, dont
@PresidentABO
est le "champoin" pour l'Afrique.
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Congratulations to
@biendimaganga
, Gabon's fisheries minister, who is out on the waves with
@seashepherd
arresting IUU boats!
@PresidentABO
@MoussaAdamo
@OssoukaRaponda
@ForetmerGOUVGA
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It was an honour today to be sworn in as Minister of Water, Forests, Oceans and Environment in Prime Minister Rose Christiane OSSOUKA RAPONDA’s government and to pledge allegiance to
@PresidentABO
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It was an honour to accompany
@PresidentABO
this morning to his meeting with Baroness Scotland, Secretary General of the Commonwealth, to discuss Gabon's request to become a member.
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Speaking at the
#UNGA
@PresidentABO
calls for the global community to mobilise 1% of global GDP for Nature.
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Congratulations to the Gabon Blue team - the tuna boats and other trawlers are getting better at releasing by-catch sharks alive. That helps to maintain the ecological balance of our oceans.
@Parcs_Gabon
@biendimaganga
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Speaking in the opening ceremony of the
#UNGA
@antonioguterres
calls on the world to « stop our suicidal war against nature ».
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Gabon has a new and our first female Prime Minister. Heartfelt congratulations to Rose Christiane OSSOUKA RAPONDA and thank you to our out-going Prime Minister
@Pm_JulienNkoghe
for all your hard work!
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Parc National Lopé/ Patrimoine mondial Unesco: Retour d'une espèce emblématique, Hippopotamus amphibius, dont on n'avait plus des empreintes depuis 20 ans. Une présence signalée par les riverains du village Achouka depuis quelques mois, le suivi de nos chercheurs.
@Parcs_Gabon
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Today
@PACJA1
organised a March for climate justice from the Libreville Mayor’s offic to the Ministry of Environment and delivered a message for
@PresidentABO
. We then revealed a « torch for climate
@justice
» which will travel to all corners of Africa before
@Cop27P
.
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Our publication made the front cover of Nature. The tropical rainforests of the World are feeling the impacts of climate change - trees are dying and forests burning. Good news: Congo Basin Forests are doing better than most. Today Congo Basin absorbs as much CO2 as the Amazon.
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These gorillas, filmed at Mikongo in Lopé World Heritage Site, seem to have learnt not to touch the electric fence built by
@Parcs_Gabon
and
@SpaceforGiants
to protect people’s crops from elephants!
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Masks can be a fashion statement too! In Hong Kong everybody wears a mask and they seem to be restricting the spread of
#COVID19
. I am currently self isolating pending the results of a colleague’s test. My message to you - don’t be seen in public without a mask! They save lives!
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Where better than in the biodiverse hyper-humid tropical rain forest of the Raponda Walker Arboretum north of Libreville, to introduce
@AlokSharma_RDG
, President delegate of
@COP26
to the Congo Basin and discuss how to make COP26 a success and find solutions to climate change?
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What an incredible place Cross River National Park is - I surveyed it for the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) in 1988 with John Reid. We saw gorillas, red colobus, crowned guenon, drills and much more. Great to hear it is preserved today, despite the pressures.
Privileged to visit
#CrossRiver
National Park last week, host to one of the oldest rainforests in
#Africa
. 🇳🇬 rangers doing a brilliant job but threats from illegal logging and poaching omnipresent
#nature
#wildlife
#biodiversity
@msimire
@RnfrstAlliance
@UNEP_Africa
🌳 🦍🦋🐘🐦
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Gabon is celebrating World Wildlife Day - a day to reflect on how nature-based economies can generate jobs and livelihoods sustainably, preserve biodiversity and ecosystem services and fight climate change. Let’s say no to extinction and yes to a healthy planet!
@PresidentABO
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Gabon’s UNFCCC Sovereign REDD+ credits posted on the Lima Hub marking the end to an intense 3-year review process. Our credits result from decreased emissions, measured nationally to avoid any chance of leakage and result in increased net sequestration.
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Des hyènes en plein forêt au Gabon, photographié près de Momba Bai, a l’Est du PN Ivindo par
@PantheraCats
@Parcs_Gabon
et un étudiant de USTM!!
The
@Parcs_Gabon
/
@PantheraCats
team working on the corridor between Mwagne and Ivindo National Parks photographed this hyena deep in the rain forest. Well done
@PhilippHenschel
and Christopher Orbell from Panthera and Landry, a USTM student doing his Masters research with them!
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It is an honour to be re-appointed as Minister of Water, Forests, Seas and Environment, charged with Climate and Land-use Planning, in
@OssoukaRaponda
’s government. An action-oriented government responsible for implementing
@PresidentABO
’s vision for Gabon.
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It was an immense honour to be sworn in as a Minister of the Gabonese Republic, my adopted country, in front of President Ali BONGO ONDIMBA, with life sized portraits of the two founding fathers of the nation, Leon MBA and Omar BONGO ONDIMBA, looking on.
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It is an honour to have a new species of plant named Palisota leewhitei. It is a small herb that is abundant in the Raponda Walker Arboretum but is unique to that small forest 15 minutes north of Libreville.
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This image from
@PantheraCats
@PhilippHenschel
shows an adult giant pangolin just outside Moukalaba, in the
@FSC_Africa
certified CBG concession. In light of the link between the Coronaviruses and wildlife our teams will double their efforts to study human-wildlife health!
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For the first time Gabon is having a General Election where Presidential, Parliamentary and Local elections are happening on the same day. And for the first time I am a candidate - in the local election in the Lopé Booué Department.
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Gabon's forest elephant population is up 50% since 1990 not down 75%! Testament to
@PresidentABO
's leadership and to
@Parcs_Gabon
's courage and dedication, as well as to the long-term support of
@USFWSIntl
and our many other donors.
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#COVID
ー19 has reinforced our understanding of the link between man and nature. The message is clear, if we destroy Mother Nature we risk to feel her wrath. On this World Environment Day we should take stock and take the first steps towards a new relationship with Nature.
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I escaped from Libreville to Pongara Lodge - which has now re-opened following 5 months of
#COVID19
closure.
@Parcs_Gabon
@EauxForets_GA
@AmazingGabon
@GabonSafaris
@GabonVert
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At the Ministerial meeting organised in London by the
#COP26
presidency, after chairing a break-out group on adaptation, I spoke in the session on achieving the 1.5°C target. I highlighted the role of forests & Nature-based solutions, as well as the need for a carbon floor price.
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Message from Wynand, deputy warden in Loango. He is the surrogate father of a baby elephant whose mum was killed by poachers. Thanks to our friends in Kenya who reacted so fast to a request for a milk formula! There is hope for this little one thanks to
@Parcs_Gabon
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Congratulations to the Lopé Wildlife monitoring team. In what may be the largest single camera trapping survey ever in the African rainforest they deployed 203 cameras across Lopé and Waka National Parks, walking 1200km. Well done
@Parcs_Gabon
@ecofac6
@StirUni
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We analyse 32 years of phenology data and 80,000 images of forest elephants in Lopé, central Gabon, revealing a catastrophic 80% decrease in fruit availability and 11% decline in elephant body condition. Climate change results in hungry elephants!
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It was great to chat to
@BeckyCNN
about Gabon's contribution to the fight against climate change and our partnership with Norway and
@CAFISecretariat
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« Kamaya » along with his family of 9 welcomed us this morning at Loango National Park.
#anpn
#amazinggabon
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It was an honour to participate alongside
@PresidentABO
in the low carbon Climate Leaders Summit hosted by
@POTUS
. As President Bongo said: "we live in a climate democracy and no individual country can escape the catastrophic results of our collective actions".
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Visiting the habituated gorillas in Loango National Park with Marthy MAPANGOU (the WWF Gabon Director) and
@WWF_DG
. This project run by
@Parcs_Gabon
and Max Planck Institute combines science and conservation tourism.
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Look out elephant poachers and ivory traffickers - Gabon’s new penal code will send you to prison for a minimum of 4 years!
Attention aux braconniers et trafiquants d’ivoire - il y a un nouveau code pénale au Gabon!!
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Congratulations to the Technical Director of
@Parcs_Gabon
and the CIAR unit who confiscated 200kgs of ivory and 30 elephant tails after a gun battle with poachers in the south of Minkebe National Park this morning. Ivory prices are down but the battle is far from over!
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It is an honour to represent Gabon in the High Level Opening Session at COP25.
@PresidentABO
has worked tirelessly to try to move the international community towards a global commitment to fight against climate change. The Gabonese delegation is working to further his vision.
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I am at the PRE-COP in Milan. Ministers are gathered to increase momentum in the run up to
#COP26
. In the last week Gabon, the most carbon positive country on earth, has adopted an ambitious new climate law. Ambition is key to our common success.
@AlokSharma_RDG
@PresidentABO
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Our team in the Lekoni Reserve, lead by Dr. Joseph Okouyi and Lucien Massoukou, filmed this albino Grimms duiker, known locally as "Ntsa". Apparently there are several "Ntsa blanc" in this population.
@ForetmerGOUVGA
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At UNEA, I emphasised the sustainable development and conservation strategies implemented by
@PresidentABO
, which make Gabon the most carbon positive country, net absorbing over 100 million tons of CO2 annually, with 88% forest cover, 22% of our land and 27% of our seas protected
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I spent the weekend in Loango National Park with
@SamuelLJackson
, who is in Gabon to trace his Benga roots and to make a documentary on the slave trade. We saw lots of elephants in Akaka and were well taken care of by the Loango Lodge staff.
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I should have been alongside
@PresidentABO
at the Future Investment Forum but am confined to my hotel room with
#COVID19
- participating remotely via
#Twitter
. President Bongo insisted on the need for economic transformation that keeps the Congo Basin forests standing.
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A leopard ate my shoes and socks! I put my wet shoes out in front of my tent last night in LOURI camp, Loango National Park. A leopard came in the night and chewed them up!
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Only in
@AmazingGabon
do you have marine turtles nesting in the capital city within a few KM of downtown Libreville!
Early sighting this season of Olive Ridley
#TURTLE
tracks outside the UN Residence on the beach in
#Libreville
.
#Nesting
season beginning?
@AmazingGabon
#Gabon
@laurajfrost
@LeeWhiteCBE
#turtles
#conservation
#biodiversit
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Richard Oslisly with some of the 520 iron and bronze artifacts found in the Iroungou cave in Southern Gabon. This treasure trove is from the 14th and 15th centuries - and is the first record of iron tools from before the colonial era. Now to create an incredible museum display!
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We spent the last hour of Christmas Day watching this Olive Ridley nesting about 400m from Pongara Lodge. Quite the Christmas Present from Gabon Wildlife Camps!
@AmazingGabon
@GabonSafaris
@Parcs_Gabon
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