CONGO, 29th Sept 2012: An ecoguard holds a crude double harpoon found at an illegal fishing camp on the banks of the Dja river.

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CONGO, 29th Sept 2012: A bi-national group of ecoguards from Cameroon and Gabon patrol the Dja river and the Mesok Dja National Park, looking for evdience of wildlife poaching. Here they destroy an illegal fishing camp on the banks of the river. 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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Photo credit: © Mike Goldwater / Alamy / Afripics
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