• An aerial view of a highway that separates Banco National Park, one of the world's last primary rainforests to survive within a major metropolis, from a developed area of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, June 18. In Abidjan, a metropolitan area of some 5.5 million people, the authorities have turned the park into a poster child of their conservation efforts. | ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / THE NEW YORK TIMES
    An aerial view of a highway that separates Banco National Park, one of the world's last primary rainforests to survive within a major metropolis, from a developed area of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, June 18. In Abidjan, a metropolitan area of some 5.5 million people, the authorities have turned the park into a poster child of their conservation efforts. | ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / THE NEW YORK TIMES
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The clangs of the men’s chisels and hammers were deafening as they dismantled a rusty truck, the din only fading as it reached the dense forest encircling them.

The mechanics were working in the biggest junkyard in Ivory Coast, where the skeletons of thousands of disused vans, buses and taxis spread out endlessly and engine oil soaked into the muddy soil.

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