African manatees are found in freshwater along the coast of western Africa, such as in Cameroon's vast Lake Ossa where the researcher first saw them more than 10 years ago.
A statue of a manatee stand at a roundabout in the town of Dizangue, Cameroon. (AFP)
DIZANGUE - Ever since his first hard-won sightings of African manatees, award-winning marine biologist Aristide Takoukam Kamla has been devoted to protecting the little known and at risk
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