Filmed this morning by Jean Louis Kakoua Atsima, the DTA at @Parcs_Gabon, this elephant is feeding on aquatic plants in the Ivindo River above Koungou Falls - in the Ivindo World Héritage Site.
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Prof. Lee White CBE
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Prof. Lee White CBE
@LeeWhiteCBE
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New York, INC.
Joined September 2016
- Gabon's Mayumba National Park is host to the world's largest population of nesting leather back turtles. This one showed up early in the season this afternoon in downtown Libreville! She laid 96 eggs in full view of the turtle friendly population before heading back to sea.
- Our paper showing that giant pangolins and bats cohabit in underground burrows is somewhat over-shadowed by its implications for coronavirus transmission. What I find awazing is that the burrows go up to 25m underground! @StirUni @Parcs_Gabon
00:00- Photos from yesterday in the Plateau Bateke National Park in SE Gabon. Thanks to @PresidentABO @Parcs_Gabon @ForetmerGOUVGA @AspinallCharity @DamianAspinall @PantheraCats @PhilippHenschel @USFWSIntl @RainforestTrust @WCSGabon the park and its wildlife are coming back.
- I shedded a tear for HRH Prince Philip - a true silverback of the Conservation world. As President of @WWF he came to Nigeria when I was working to create Cross River and Okomu NPs and to Gabon in 1999, 3 years before we created the network of 13 NPs. Thank you for your passion!
- Two important papers published in Nature and Current Biology show that Bat and Pangolin Coronaviruses may be the source of SARS-CoV-2 which causes #COVID19. Gabon has signed a law to stop trade in bats and pangolins as a precaution. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… doi.org/10.1038/s41586…
- It is an honour to be reappointed Minister of Water, Forests, the Sea and Environment charged with the National Climate Plan and Land-use Planning in a new government lead by Prime Minister @BilieByNze under the authority of @PresidentABO
- President Emmanuel Macron walked in the Raponda Walker Arboretum - an “initiation” - before the Ine Forest Summit in Libreville #Gabon. I think it is safe to say he is now an ambassador for Africa’s equatorial rain forests alongside @PresidentABO
00:00 - Djongo, one of the gorillas reintroduced into the Bateke Plateau National Park by @AspinallCharity and @Parcs_Gabon says hello to the Senior Warden, Jean Louis Kakoua Atsima, who filmed this salute. ANPN is taking special measures to protect apes during the Coronavirus outbreak.
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- How to pay tribute to my big hearted friend of over 20 years, my “grand frère” Michael Moussa, who passed away today? He brought Gabon into the Commonwealth, fought for Nature &promoted Gabon in the four corners of the World. When the sadness has passed I will remember his smile!
- Our thoughts are with the team in Virunga National Park for the loss of their brave colleagues. Our deepest sympathy to their families and friends. Gabon’s rangers mourn with you! @Parcs_Gabon bbc.com/news/world-afr…
- Gabon is re-inventing itself right now - but the sunset in Lopé this evening shows that Gabon is the chosen land. The sun will keep rising on the “vert - jaune - bleu” and as a nation we will continue to be the “pays de dialogue” not war. The Last Eden.
