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<FONT size=2>Your secret African travel destinations:</FONT><BR>Gabon: Sharing the beach with hippos
The Mangroves <br><i>an undervalued ecosystem</i>
Forests and deforestation in Africa<br> <i>- the wasting of an immense resource</i>






GDP growth in Gabon 2003 to 2013
Economy - Development

Improved outlook for Gabon economy

afrol News - A new analysis of the Gabonese economy is more optimistic about economic growth this year and next year. As oil revenues are decreasing, Gabon is successfully is diversifying its economy.

Gabon's President Ali Bongo (r)
Economy - Development

Gabon nets US$1.7bn Singaporean investments

afrol News - Gabonese authorities have managed to secure investments worth a total of US$ 1.7 billion from Singapore, including a new fertilizer plant to be set up outside Port Gentil and palm oil plantations.


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Mangroves in Gabon's Loango National Park
Travel - Leisure

Your secret African travel destinations:
Gabon: Sharing the beach with hippos


afrol News - "Ecotourism" is the magic word in Gabon, an immensely beautiful tropical rainforest country with Africa's highest density of national parks. But tourists have not started coming in great numbers to the Gabonese coast yet as infrastructure is still sparse. In itself a good reason to go...

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Mangroves in the Casamance (Senegal)
Environment - Nature | Science - Education

The Mangroves
an undervalued ecosystem


afrol News - Historically classified "unhealthy wastelands" or "useless swamps" by development-eager authorities and businesses, the mangrove forests actually are one of the most fascinating resources in tropical Africa. The trees manage to live on the edge between flooding rivers, tidal waves intruding with salt water and the drylands, where they create new land and environs rich in fish, birds, wood and other resources. Finally, their value is being discovered.

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Deforestation of African rain forest
Environment - Nature

Forests and deforestation in Africa
- the wasting of an immense resource


afrol News - Except for the Congo Basin, Africa's frontier forests have largely been destroyed, primarily by loggers and by farmers clearing land for agriculture. In West Africa, nearly 90 percent of the original moist forest is gone, and what remains is heavily fragmented and degraded. Today, West African unspoiled forests are restricted to one patch in Côte d'Ivoire and another along the border between Nigeria and Cameroon.

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