Four ways in · Peoples · Forest · Projects
Before it is a place of initiation, Ebando is woven into a land. Gabon, the peoples who inhabit it, the equatorial forest, and the concrete projects that follow from them. This section is a map, not a catalogue.
What the word “discover” means here
The word “discover” is not touristic here. It is about understanding what holds together: the forest, the peoples who are its guardians, the traditions that endure within it, and the actions led on the ground to preserve, to transmit, to support. Four doors, each one leading to a different part of this web.
The four doors
Each one leads to a different part of the web.
Peoples of Gabon
Babongo, Baka, Bakoya. A relationship woven over more than twenty years with the first peoples of the equatorial forest.
Discover
Ecotourism & the Tour du Gabon
Gabon, 85% equatorial forest, thirteen national parks. And a founding Tour carried out in 2004 with the WCS.
Explore
Projects
Six concrete projects carried by the association: traditional forge, pirogue, schooling, the information caravan, support for the Babongo.
See the projects
Memories
A photographic memory of Ebando. Panoramas, scenes of life, fragments of a story stretching back more than twenty-five years.
Browse
A web, not a list
What holds it all together.
The forest is not a backdrop, and the peoples who inhabit it are not its extras. The four doors you have just seen are not headings: they are the threads of one and the same living relationship between a land, a memory and a commitment.
The peoples keep the knowledge, ecotourism opens a path of respect, the projects support those who carry this world, and the memories hold its trace. Everything answers everything else.
In a low voice
A deep Gabon, in a low voice.
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