Far from the well-trodden tourism path, the Central African nation promises unparalleled access to nature at its wildest.

The Minkébé National Park, in turn, is home to Gabon’s biggest elephant population and to probably the largest forest elephant population in Africa. “At least until these data came out,” she said.

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

Three-quarters of this estimate are African savanna elephants. Over 50% of African forest elephants reside in Gabon, while ...

DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species ... forest elephant populations occur in Central Africa, in the countries of Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ...

Found in Central Africa, most African forest elephants live in the Republic of Congo and Gabon. The largest of the two, African savanna elephants live in 23 African countries. More than half of ...

A new study analyzed the largest archaeological cargo of African ivory ever found, researchers report. All of the elephant tusks were from African forest elephants, Loxodonta cyclotis.

A photo shows two African forest elephants. Photo from Will Burrard ... the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon.