PHOTO OF THE DAY August 11, 2004  

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Where Gabon, Africa
When 2002
Photographer Michael Nichols

The discoveries recorded in biologist J. Michael Fay's Megatransect through central Africa brought needed park protection to hidden wonders like the Ivindo River's Mingouli Falls. The lack of roads has kept such areas shielded from development, but pressure from the logging industry is building.

—Text adapted from "Saving Africa's Eden," September 2003, National Geographic magazine


Congo Trek—online archive of J. Michael Fay's Megatransect
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