CONGO, 29th Sept 2012: Ecoguards in Messok Dja National Park look at tree bark stripped from a tree by elephants on this elephant trail.

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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, look at tree bark stripped from a tree by elephants on this elephant trail. 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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