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Photographed at night with an infrared converted DSLR camera, a critically endangered African forest elephant chews on a Detarium macrocarpum fruit as she guides her calf. In 1987, the forest elephants typically needed to search only 10 trees to find one with ripe fruit, but by 2018, they had to check 50, reflecting a nearly 81 percent decline in the available fruit in Lopé’s forests due to changing climate conditions. Photo @jasperdoest #onassignment @natgeo in #Gabon. The story is currently published in the May edition of the magazine, which is a special issue dedicated to the state of the world’s forests.