| Natural EnvironmentThe Forest of the Baka(Rainforest of Cameroon, Gabon and Congo)Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis DevinSoundscape: Greater Spot-nosed Monkey vocalizations (Cercopithecus nictitans). In the background, African rainforest sounds. |
2. Sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) in a clearing. 3. Group of forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis).
African rainforest elephants
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4. Rainforest trees and vines, along a path near a pygmy camp.
The African rainforest
Baka Pygmy camps | | | |
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5. River in the Cameroonian rainforest. 6. Waterfalls in the Gabonese rainforest.
Rivers and lakes of the Central African rainforests
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7. Bird on the bank of a creek in the middle of a clearing.
Rainforest clearings (bais) | | | |
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| 8. Dawn on the African rain forest. | | | |
| | Thematic links and insights:
| - The African rainforest
- The Bakola Pygmy forest
- Rainforest waterfalls
- Rainforest primates
- Rainforest exploitation
- Deforestation
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| | Baka Pygmy rainforest (Central Africa), with photos and ethnographic notes. Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/baka/environment.asp
The time in the tropical rainforests of the Western Congo Basin, when you accessed this page, was 11:19 on Thursday, September 9, 2010. For every minute spent on this page, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF).
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