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Secret voyages of leatherback turtles revealed using transmittersGuardian Unlimited | 05 Jan 2011Researchers have tracked 'nature's ancient mariners' as they spend several months travelling from Africa to South America. On 2 February 2009, at 4am, a turtle known as Tika set off from the coast of Gabon, west Africa. She spent almost six months swimming across the Atlantic, a 5,000-mile (8,000km) journey to the coast of South America. At the moment she is probably somewhere off Brazil, eating jellyfish and building herself up.
Gabon | Biodiversity | Conservation Africa, don't sign away resourcesAfricaFiles | 29 Apr 2009The African winner of the 2009 Green Nobel prize, a wheelchair-bound Gabonese activist has won the African 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize for a decade of activism to protect the Congo Basin Rainforest. He leaked a copy of a secret, $3,5 billion deal between the government of Gabon and a Chinese company to build a mine and dam. The government reduced the mining concession by 90%, scraped the 25 year tax break, and halted the project until an environmental impact assessment is done. DN
Gabon | Economics and the Environment Africa: A Fresh Look at BushmeatConsultative Group on International Agriculture Research | 01 Oct 2008An upsurge in hunting of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians for bushmeat in Central Africas tropical forests is unsustainable and poses a serious threat to the food security of poor forest inhabitants, who rely largely on this meat as a source of protein.
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