Exceptional photos of Libreville Ivindo National Park, Gabon

Straddling the equator, Gabon’s Ivindo National Park has some of the most impenetrable rainforests and wildest rivers on Earth. The densely vegetated, humid 1,200-square-mile region of West Africa is a haven for apes and monkeys—chimpanzees, gorillas, and spot-nosed monkeys to name just a few. A large natural clearing in this vast forest, called Langoué Bai, is frequented by forest elephants and lowland gorillas that are seemingly unafraid of humans.