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Loango Storm, Gabon, 2004

A storm looms over Loango National Park. No permanent structures are allowed on the shoreline, and visitors are encouraged to act as unobtrusively as the wildlife and leave the coast exactly as they found it.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Gabon's Loango National Park," August 2004, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Michael K. Nichols