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World Service,08 Jun 2022,9 mins

Saving Gabon's rainforest

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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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