I LIVE HERE — in Lomami’s far out-back
Mangazumbu mama minces no words. The rains have started. The scents are wonderful. Hanging lianas brush fragrant flowers against our faces as the motorbikes speed along brief stretches of dry path....
View ArticleCongo’s Explosive Outback
A military brigade encamped in the tiny village of Obenge buries one of its own. The outback of DR Congo is infiltrated with fortune seekers, outlaws, rebels and criminals. These are not all equally...
View ArticleWill Village Murder bring Village Rebirth?
Recently murdered, Kapere Molangi, is third from left in this picture taken at the beginning of the Abraham prize ceremony in 2010. In August 2001, the isolated village of Obenge was the scene of a...
View ArticleDugout Trip to Reclaim the Northern Lomami Park
We pushed off from Opala with two pigs, four goats, several chickens and a duck to eat along the way. We were a bit crowded in the dugout. We had to make the trip. It was the only way to know if armed...
View ArticleBonobo Meat at Kindu Market Rate
The hunter, the bonobo, and the shotgun that killed her. We thought we were making progress in 2009. Every village had poster pictures of bonobos and other completely protected species. “Not to...
View ArticleEbola Empties Villages, Bushmeat Empties Forests.
Just dead-Still warm. Ebola is a disease, Bushmeat is commerce, but both remain uncontrolled for similar reasons: absence – on the ground – of adequate trained, committed individuals. Why the...
View ArticleFighting Arson with Fire-Power along the Lomami
The chief of the bangengele doing outreach for the park before we put in bridges. Her house, too, went up in flames. See below. Arsonists burned three of our base camps in just over a year. The first...
View ArticleHow to Move a Village ?
Obenge, seemed a peaceful village… … though impoverished and utterly remote with no school and no health care. In 2007 the TL2/Lukuru project made its first landing at Obenge and soon it became our...
View ArticleWhy Not Kill a Bonobo
Arrested and on his way to Kindu. No escape possible. It was on 1st July 2015 that Asanga Gilbert brought four dead bonobos into Likanjo, the hunters’ village that has cankered up on the west side of...
View ArticleManiema Meets New York
Leon Salumu stands at the Southern end of Central Park a couple days before returning to Maniema, Congo. Leon Salumu, the head of the TL2 PALL project (assisting law enforcement) spent three weeks of...
View ArticleI LIVE HERE — in Lomami’s far out-back
Mangazumbu mama minces no words. The rains have started. The scents are wonderful. Hanging lianas brush fragrant flowers against our faces as the motorbikes speed along brief stretches of dry path....
View ArticleCongo’s Explosive Outback
A military brigade encamped in the tiny village of Obenge buries one of its own. The outback of DR Congo is infiltrated with fortune seekers, outlaws, rebels and criminals. These are not all equally...
View ArticleWill Village Murder bring Village Rebirth?
Recently murdered, Kapere Molangi, is third from left in this picture taken at the beginning of the Abraham prize ceremony in 2010. In August 2001, the isolated village of Obenge was the scene of a...
View ArticleDugout Trip to Reclaim the Northern Lomami Park
We pushed off from Opala with two pigs, four goats, several chickens and a duck to eat along the way. We were a bit crowded in the dugout. We had to make the trip. It was the only way to know if armed...
View ArticleBonobo Meat at Kindu Market Rate
The hunter, the bonobo, and the shotgun that killed her. We thought we were making progress in 2009. Every village had poster pictures of bonobos and other completely protected species. “Not to...
View ArticleEbola Empties Villages, Bushmeat Empties Forests.
Just dead-Still warm. Ebola is a disease, Bushmeat is commerce, but both remain uncontrolled for similar reasons: absence – on the ground – of adequate trained, committed individuals. Why the...
View ArticleFighting Arson with Fire-Power along the Lomami
The chief of the bangengele doing outreach for the park before we put in bridges. Her house, too, went up in flames. See below. Arsonists burned three of our base camps in just over a year. The first...
View ArticleHow to Move a Village ?
Obenge, seemed a peaceful village… … though impoverished and utterly remote with no school and no health care. In 2007 the TL2/Lukuru project made its first landing at Obenge and soon it became our...
View ArticleWhy Not Kill a Bonobo
Arrested and on his way to Kindu. No escape possible. It was on 1st July 2015 that Asanga Gilbert brought four dead bonobos into Likanjo, the hunters’ village that has cankered up on the west side of...
View ArticleManiema Meets New York
Leon Salumu stands at the Southern end of Central Park a couple days before returning to Maniema, Congo. Leon Salumu, the head of the TL2 PALL project (assisting law enforcement) spent three weeks of...
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