CONGO, 29th Sept 2012: Ecoguards from Cameroon and Gabon on patrol the Messok Dja National Park listen to monkeys calling overhead.

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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 evidence of wildlife poaching, and observing forest wildlife. 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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