Global Forest Watch: Gabon history. at Logging in gabon, the first civil society report on logging in gabon.Early on, the Central Africa regional Program for the Environment, CARPE, (a http://www.globalforestwatch.org/english/gabon/gfw.htm
Extractions: Select a country... Cameroon Gabon Canada Indonesia Brazil Chile Russia United States Venezuela Overview Forests News GFW Gabon History Contact Partners Supporters Global Forest Watch Gabon is the national chapter of Global Forest Watch, a World Resources Institute (WRI) initiative to support the development of a decentralized, independent forest monitoring network spanning the major forest countries of the planet. Along with Cameroon Canada , and Indonesia , Gabon is one of the first four pilot countries in the Global Forest Watch network. Today, GFW also includes Chile, Venezuela, Russia and the United States. Initial work started in Gabon in 1998 with 6 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) based in Libreville: le Comité Inter-Association Jeunesse et Environnement, les Amis du Pangolin; les Amis de la Nature, Culture et Environnement; Aventures Sans Frontières; le Centre dActivités pour le Développement Durable et lEnvironnement; and Image Gabon Nature. They were joined by Forêt et Développement in 1999. With WRIs help, the local NGOs designed an activity framework that would ensure that local needs and issues were addressed. Given its important economic and environmental consequences, the logging sector was highlighted as the first topic Global Forest Watch would document. Each NGO agreed to collect information for various portions of
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Extractions: Country Info Gabon Introduction Gabon General Data Gabon Maps Gabon Culture ... Gabon Time and Date Gabon History Back to Top Discoveries of tools from the end of the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age indicate early settlements in what is now Gabon, but little is known about the first inhabitants. By the 13th century ad the Mpongwe people were established in the country. The first contact with Europeans was with the Portuguese in the 1470s. During the following 350 years, first the Portuguese and later the French, Dutch, and English carried on a lucrative trade in slaves. The first permanent European settlement was made by the French, with the agreement of the Mpongwe ruler, in 1839. Libreville was founded a decade later by freed slaves. Over the next several years the French extended their rule inland, and in 1866 they appointed a governor to Gabon, which was then attached to the French Congo; it became part of French Equatorial Africa in 1910. During World War II (1939-1945) Gabon was held by the Free French, and in 1946 it became an overseas territory of France. The first Gabonese government council was formed in 1957, and Léon Mba became president of the council in 1958. Also in 1958, Gabon voted to become an autonomous republic in the French Community. Mba then became prime minister. The country declared its independence on August 17, 1960, and in 1961 Mba was elected president. A military coup overthrew President Mbas government in 1964, but French troops, in accordance with a Franco-Gabonese defense agreement, intervened and restored him to power; he was reelected president in 1967. Upon Mbas death later that year, Vice President Albert-Bernard Bongo succeeded to the presidency. Bongo, who later assumed the Islamic first name Omar, was reelected in 1973. During the mid-1970s Gabon began to loosen its ties with France and the French-speaking regional organizations. With Gabonization, the government became a partner in many foreign firms, and native Gabonese filled management positions once held by foreigners.
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Extractions: History There are only two things that appear certain about Gabon: the first is that its precolonial history is shrouded in uncertainty; and the second is that whatever its history, its come a long way in a relatively short period of time. Educated guesses put Pygmies as the original inhabitants but they were quickly displaced in the 16th and 18th centuries by the Fang who migrated south from Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. Small family units of Pygmies now only survive in the more remote parts of the country. In 1912, Albert Schweitzer, missionary-with-a-difference, ex-theologian, and physician, set off for Gabon, en famille During the early years of the 20th century, when colonisation was still seen as an economic rather than a social or ethical issue, French private companies exploited Gabon by forcing Africans to work for them. Having only recently thrown off the shackles of slavery, the Gabonese were understandably bent out of shape by this new form of indentured slavery and, like other Africans in French Equatorial Africa, vented their anger in periodic revolts. Each successive revolt was quelled, and by the time a new broom swept these old regimes out of the country the companies had destroyed the forests, used up most of the other natural resources, and sent the country into an economic slump that lasted until after WWI. In 1960, M'Ba was elected as the first president of the new republic of Gabon and survived a mid-60s coup to remain in office until his death from natural causes in 1967. This was no mean feat given that presidents of other African countries tend to be elected at the pull of a trigger and deposed in much the same way. His successor, the diminutive Albert-Bernard Bongo, made Gabon a one-party state and then converted to Islam, becoming El Hadj Omar Bongo. His appointment fortuitously coincided with the processing of manganese and uranium deposits and a bullish run on oil prices. This ushered in the 'Gabonese Miracle', a decade of untold wealth, champagne and caviar lifestyles, and a spendthrift's mentality. In the year that oil prices peaked, Gabon hosted a summit for the Organisation of African Unity to the staggering tune of US$1 billion.
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Extractions: HISTORY OF MEMBERSHIP The continent's position as a crossroads between the Americas, Europe and Asia also lays it open to transnational crimes such as traffic in weapons, illicit drug trafficking, illegal immigration, traffic in stolen motor vehicles and fraud, etc., which can only be stopped by international co-operation. Seeking and locating the criminals involved poses problems relating to information exchange, international identification and arrests with a view to extradition. This is why Interpol (in accordance with Article 2 (1) of its Constitution) ensures the closest possible co-operation between the "criminal police authorities" of all member countries, including those in Africa. Crime is not associated with a particular region and is certainly not a problem for Africa alone. Ever since it was established, the International Criminal Police Organization - Interpol has been seen by countries all over the world as an institution whose principles and objectives correspond to universal aspirations for human rights, public safety and the fight against ordinary law crime. Joining Interpol was therefore one of the first steps taken by various African leaders once their countries obtained independence.
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Extractions: Designed by: Hosted by: GABON ICAO CODE: AGN CALLSIGN: Golf November WEBSITE: Air Gabon began as Compagnie Aerienne Gabonaise in 1951 to fly local flights from Libreville with Beechcraft and DeHavilland twins. In 1968 it became the national flag carrier and was named Societe Nationale Air Gabon . By the mid 1970s two Fokker F-28 jets were in use along with a Boeing 737-200. From 1978 a Boeing 747-200 was used for the new route to Europe. Boeing 747-200 F-ODJG in 1998 Lukas Lusser A Fokker 100 was introduced on regional routes but this was replaced with a Boeing 727-200. ATR 42 turboprops flew domestic and regional routes. By 1996 a Boeing 767-200ER widebody had been introduced alongside the Jumbo-jet. FLEET TYPES: Boeing 767-200ER, 747-200, 727-200, 737-200, Fokker F28,ATR-42
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CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE Committee for the Slave Route in cooperation with regional Slave Route Iron Roadsin Africa , organized in November 2000 in gabon. General history of Africa. http://www.unesco.org/africa/portal/culteng_4.html
Extractions: INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE Launched in Ouidah (Benin) in 1994, the intercultural "Slave Route" project has seen steady development. It is currently structured round four key programmes: a scientific research programme; an education and teaching programme; a programme on the promotion of living cultures and artistic and spiritual forms of expression; and a cultural tourism programme on the memory of slavery and the diaspora. As part of the scientific research programme, an international seminar on "Bantu Cultures in the Americas and the Caribbean" was held from 6 to 10 November 2000 in Libreville (Gabon). The seminar was organized in cooperation with the International Centre for the Bantu Civilizations, the University of Alcala (Spain) and the Gabonese government. A scientific research network on the same subject has been set up at Omar Bongo University. A cultural festival was staged by the Gabonese authorities in connection with the seminar. UNESCO provided funding towards this and the exhibition in Libreville of part of the Afro-America Mexico travelling exhibition, which dealt with the memory of runaway slaves in the Americas. Funding (US $6,000) was also granted to Gorée City Council for organizing the Black Roots Festival in Gorée from 30 November to 3 December 2000.
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Extractions: Vanco Energy Company's history has been marked by risk taking and, for the last thirty years, frontier international exploration. In the late 1960's, an unsuccessful leasehold on America's last great oil and gas frontier, Alaska's North Slope, along with the trend of declining reserves in the United States, led Van Dyke to focus on frontier international exploration in the early 1970's. In 1973, the purchase of a 25% interest in Tenneco's 1.2 million-acre licenses offshore The Netherlands led the company to a 23-year history of oil and gas discoveries in the Dutch North Sea. Among others, Van Dyke discovered the Rijn Field (P/15, 1982) and the Horizon Field (P/9, 1983). Given his firm belief in mobile production systems and the emerging deepwater potential worldwide, the timing was right for Van Dyke to lead his company in exploring offshore West Africa in 1996. After a regional study of the Lower Congo Basin, Vanco sought and received its first two licenses offshore Africa a year later: the Anton Marin Permit and the Astrid Marin Permit offshore Gabon. In 2001, the Vanco Gabon Group (TotalFinaElf, operator) drilled four wells on the Astrid Marin Permit. Although non-commercial, the wells were a technical success for drilling in deep water in a remote location. A world record water depth was set with the Judy 1 well, drilled in 2,791 meters water depth.
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