Botanists Comb Gabon's Rich Rainforests with Nature on the Line
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Gabon's thick tropical forests are home to an exceptional biodiversity that has not yet revealed all its secrets. New plant species are discovered every year by scientists who struggle to ensure their preservation.
Botanists comb Gabon's rich rainforests with nature on the line
Each year, Gabon's lush rainforests yield the discovery of previously unknown plant species to botanists like Archange Boupoya—who believes that this exceptional yet largely mysterious natural wealth needs to be cataloged to be saved.
In the edge of a dense and humid forest, dozens of orchids float under a shader, suspended, while others, on the ground, climb on metal columns. All the variants of this species prized throughout the world present in Gabonese nature are preserved by botanists in the arboretum of Sibang, a small piece of tropical forest in the middle of Libreville, the capital of this Central African country, of which 88% of the territory is still covered with fo…
Gabon is home to a flora of rare wealth, some of which is still unknown to scientists.In Libreville and in the forest, botanists identify... Read more In Gabon, an immense forest still keeps plants that no one has named appeared first on Le Singulier.
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