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, ...

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.

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 ...

In the Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, park guards and Congolese soldiers, with support from international conservation groups, have undertaken a brutal, three ...

Homes burned inside Kahuzi-Biega National Park in 2019. Image courtesy of RCF-RDC. In a call with Mongabay, Lara Domínguez, MRG strategic litigation officer, ...

The eastern lowland gorilla saw an estimated 80 percent decline in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Kahuzi-Biega National Park between 1994 and 2019.

KAHUZI-BIEGA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of Congo, Aug 2 (Reuters) - In the forested borderlands of eastern Congo, some members of an exiled hunter-gatherer community plan to move back ...

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 ...

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