Research Assignment on Gabon
Title: Research Assignment on Gabon
Category: /Society & Culture/Environment
Details: Words: 847 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Research Assignment on Gabon
Category: /Society & Culture/Environment
Details: Words: 847 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Gabon's National Parks
Gabon contains one of the richest and most biodiverse ecosystems in all of Africa, home to many rare and threatened species in the forests that cover eighty-five percent of its total surface area. However, Gabon had no protected areas, and extensive logging contracts that challenged this. Until September, 4th 2002. Just over a month before, on the first of August, three men proposed a network of parks to the President, El Hadj Omar
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tours and safaris in the reserves. This will help the economy grow more quickly, as the country moves more into the developed world, and also preserve the environment. The short-term sacrifice on the timber exports, balanced by limited funding from the United States, should lead to a much greater increase in the income from tourism, for the good of everyone.
National Geographic Magazine, September 2003 and August 2004 editions.
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