Kahuzi Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which expelled Indigenous Batwa people in 1975, is now overrun by refugees, militias, and mining, ...

43COM 7A.8 - Kahuzi-Biega National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (N 137) 2018 42COM 8C.2 - Update of the List of World Heritage in Danger (Retained Properties) 2018 42COM 7A.48 - ...

The Kahuzi-Biega National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is under threat. The park is a protected area near Bukavu town, and situated near the western bank of Lake Kivu and the ...

Kahuzi-Biega National Park. ... Park guards and Congolese soldiers burned villages and killed 20 Indigenous Batwa people between 2019 and 2021 in the name of protecting ecosystems.

In a historic 2022 ruling, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights found that the forced eviction of the ...

In Kahuzi-Biega National Park, although M23 rebels have not directly targeted . conservation sites, the wider conflict between the Congolese military and armed groups has driven rangers from their ...

The ruling by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights recognises Batwa as the best guardians of biodiversity in Kahuzi Biega National Park (PNKB) and calls on the Democratic Republic of ...

The Kahuzi-Biega National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site home to hundreds of species of birds and one of the last groups of eastern lowland gorillas, also known as Grauer's gorillas (Getty ...

In the Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the rare eastern lowland gorilla is being wiped out as a source of food for miners who are seeking the valuable mineral ...

World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...