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Mike Fay, Minkebe forest, Gabon, 1999

Photo: Mike Fay
Conservationist J. Michael Fay flies over Gabon. Fay undertook a walking expedition through 13 connected forests from Congo to Gabon, surveying some of the least explored wilderness in the world.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Megatransect," October 2000, National Geographic magazine)

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