More than ten thousand pounds of elephant ivory were burned in Gabon, a fiery act intended to snuff out a recent spike in poaching.

Elephants are among the many species of animals in the world that are facing a slippery slope of population declines due to the constant onslaught from illegal hunters. This practice, known as ...

The buildings are decrepit, the lawns unkempt, the patients left to shuffle alone and unwatched among weeds -- welcome to Gabon's sole psychiatric hospital. Built in 1982 on the outskirts of the ...

Five people were arrested after they were found with the body parts of chimpanzees, leopards, elephants and a lion.

Rich in forests and biodiversity, the Central African country of Gabon has long proved a fruitful testing ground for camera-trap technology. Snapshots of species once thought extinct in the ...

The world's newest marine sanctuary, announced this week, encompasses 18,000 square miles (over 46,000 square kilometers) of ocean around the central African nation of Gabon. (See "Gabon Announces ...

This was the first national DNA-based assessment of any free-ranging large mammal in Africa.

A spotted hyena has been sighted in a Gabon national park for the first time in 20 years, conservationists said Friday, the latest large predator to have returned to a region where many had gone ...

Previous studies suggest animal life did not emerge on Earth until around 635 ... in the nearly 2.5 km-thick sedimentary deposits they discovered in Franceville, Gabon could contain fossils of such ...