CONGO, 29th Sept 2012: A bi-national group of ecoguards from Cameroon and Gabon patrol the Messok Dja National Park, looking for poachers.

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CONGO, 29th Sept 2012: A bi-national group of ecoguards from Cameroon and Gabon patrol the Dja river and the Messok Dja National Park, looking for evdience of wildlife poaching. The Dja river forms the boundry between Cameroon and Congo. This area is in the world's second-largest rainforest, the Western Congo Basin Moist Forest in Central Africa. This region, one of the richest eco-regions in Africa in terms of biodiversity, faces increasingly severe threats from commercial logging and mining. The area is also a target for large-scale commercial hunting of wild meat and ivory, which often uses logging concession access roads.

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Location: Congo Brazzaville
Photo credit: © Mike Goldwater / Alamy / Afripics
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