Gabon: Close To Our Ancestors: Gabon Forest Peoples Map Their Land - Video Documentary

Gabon: Close To Our Ancestors: Gabon Forest Peoples Map Their Land - Video Documentary   In 2002, El Hajj Omar Bongo Ondimba, then President of the Republic of Gabon, signed into existence thirteen National Parks. The Parks were designed to represent different biomes and important biodiversity enclaves in this Congo Basin country.   This video, made in 2010, documents the experience of Babongo and Mitsogho villagers building a three dimensional model of their home territory which includes the...

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