CONGO, 26th Sept 2012: Victor Mbolo beside an elephant salt-lick on the Dja river. Forest elephants come here regularly to get minerals they need.

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CONGO, 26th Sept 2012: Victor Mbolo beside an elephant salt-lick on the Dja river. Forest elephants come here regularly to get minerals they need to suppliment their diet. 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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