It crashed in a mangrove swamp at midnight on Saturday, 12 miles south-east of Douala, where it had taken off.

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But Deering wanted the house near the bay, and the team put the villa in a mangrove swamp right on the water.

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The joint venture is composed of NNPC (55 percent), Shell (30 percent), Elf (10 percent) and Agip (5 percent) and operates largely onshore on dry land or in the mangrove swamp.

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Corcovado has roughly 13 types of vegetation, including a cloud forest, a mangrove and a freshwater herbaceous swamp.

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