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 ...

For images with animals, Wildlife Insights’ AI offers suggestions about which animals appear in which photos. Camera traps being set up in the forests. Image courtesy of Brice Roxan Momboua.

Gabon is home to about 50,000 of the remaining mammals. (See elephant pictures .) "The figures are absolutely shocking," said Iain Douglas Hamilton , founder of the conservation group Save the ...

Gabon arrests 5 found with animal parts. ... Wildlife officials believe the case spans far beyond Gabon's borders as lions are not native to the country, so those animal parts originated elsewhere.

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 ...

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 ...

Elephant surveys within Gabon since 2004 have covered just under a quarter of the nation’s elephant habitat, but over the last decade (since 2011) only 14% of the habitat has been surveyed.