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Tracking the extremely elusive and endangered Cross River gorilla is an activity best done in silence.

Daniel Taylor and his wife, Ginette, barely spoke as they took careful steps over treacherous ground in the jungle of southwestern Cameroon's Lebialem Highlands.

Led by a former poacher and accompanied by three or four other people, the Coquitlam couple was hoping to get an up-close look at the Cross River gorilla.

Single file, they quietly negotiated the dense, humid fo…

Limbe – Daniel Taylor, a high realism wildlife artists based in Canada, will paint in Limbe Wildlife Centre from 15-18 November 2007. Visitors will have free entrance to the centre during this period.

On the 15th of November a creative art workshop will be held for and with Cameroonian artists, featuring the Cross River Gorilla. This workshop is part of the AFC Flag Expedition in Cameroon, a collaborative project of Daniel Taylor, Artists for Conservation and the African Conservation F…

As Daniel and Ginette Taylor pack their bags for a month-long trek through western Cameroon, they're doing their best to prepare for the unpredictable.

The Coquitlam couple will leave B.C.'s cold, wet fall behind for the stifling heat and humidity of the tropical jungle as they search for the Cross River gorilla. With fewer than 300 living in the wild, it's the most endangered of all the gorillas, hemmed in by farmland and hunted by poachers.

Daniel plans to get as close as he c…