The Great Gabon

摘要

With 80 per cent of its land area covered in gorilla and elephant-filled rainforest, Gabon is often described as Africa's last great Eden. James Fair travelled to this little-known equatorial country to see whether it could truly be called a wildlifeparadise. JOJO HEAD didn't look like someone who spends her life tramping around swampy rainforest looking for gorillas and chimpanzees. My experience has always been that 'jungle', for want of a better word, leaves me dirty, sweaty and scabby from insect bites that I've been unable to resist scratching, but Jojo had the fresh-as-a-daisy appearance of a student who had stepped straight out of a university lecture hall.