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	Podcast:		Witness
	Episode:		Saving Gabon's rainforest
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:10:20
	Publish Date:		2022-06-08 09:00:00
	Description:		In 2002 Omar Bongo, the president of Gabon, set up a network of national parks to protect the country's forests from logging and help save its population of forest elephants. He was responding to pressure from campaigners worried by a surge in logging over the previous decade. Among them was a British biologist called Lee White, who went on to become Gabon's Minister of Forests and the Environment. Lee White talks to Laura Jones. Photo: A forest elephant in Gabon (Getty Images)
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