FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — After you step out of Lungi International Airport, you need to take a ferry or small speedboat across the Atlantic to reach Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown.

The Western Peninsula's 40 km (25 miles) of unspoiled beaches south of the hot, hilly capital Freetown stand empty. Crumbling mud huts line Boboh's shore of white sand and rippling turquoise waters.

The distribution of Euglena deses in the inter-tidal zone of the beaches of the Sierra Leone Peninsula has been studied. This organism occurs in sufficient quantity to colour the surface of the sand ...

Orphaned chimpanzees have found a new home in a sanctuary inside a national park. But they are still threatened by deforestation that affects the whole region.