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Lesser Known Facts about Bonobos

September 21, 2008 – 1:39 pm

An entire bonobo carcass is sold as bushmeat in the Kindu market for a price of 50 U.S. dollars. Bonobo nests in the south (Maniema Province) are larger than bonobo nests in the north (Orientale Province). Sounds rather like a Texas-Dakota phenomenon? The Balanga (important ethnic group in TL2) often “call in” bonobo when hunting [...]

By Terese Hart | Also posted in Bonobo | Comments (10)

Escape from Congo’s Colonial Fortress Prison

September 9, 2008 – 6:54 am

August was a very exciting time in Kisangani even without a prison escape. We are almost certain we have found a new species of monkey in the least known of Congo’s forests – the TL2 wilderness. Maurice and Gilbert just returned from a month long mission to interview hunters . They managed to collect skins [...]

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Mass Grave Between the Three Rivers

April 26, 2008 – 12:13 pm

Next to the Lomami River, between the Tshuapa and the Lualaba Rivers, there is a mass grave. Salumu Kalume, in front of the grave, tells what he witnessed This is the third and last of three posts dealing with recent barbarity up the Lomami. This history was revealed at the Obenge village meeting last week [...]

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BUSHMEAT 3 : The History of Hunting in TL2

February 26, 2008 – 2:56 pm

Traditional hunting was not more gentle than hunting today. A large mammal, like an okapi, falling on spears sticking straight up in a pit, is not gentle. These men are covering a pit dug along a narrow animal trail. But traditional hunting does NOT empty the forest. Bushmeat hunting is different, it scours ever larger [...]

By Terese Hart | Also posted in Bushmeat, Diamonds, gold and guns | Comments (13)

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About Terese Hart

As director of the TL2 Project I represent an outstanding team of Congolese field biologists. My husband and I set out in 2007 to explore an unknown forest. We found bonobos, a new species of monkey, forest elephant, okapi, Congo peacock... Our mission now, with our TL2 staff, is to build effective conservation from village-base to national administration for TL2 and other critical conservation areas of DR Congo.
terese AT bonoboincongo DOT com
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...in Kinshasa after a week with the village outreach teams in Maniema. We had a retreat at our Bafundo base camp. My first time there. Beautiful. ...

...John is working with colleagues at Max Planck in Germany, he is back in Kinshasa at the beginning of May for a week of data analysis with our friend Rene Beyers ....

...We now have a tab for maps. Our first map is the soon-to-be Lomami National Park as approved by the governors. Then a series of maps illustrates the history of the TL2 project.
About Our Project
The three river basins of the Tshuapa, Lomami and Lualaba Rivers (TL2), Congo’s forest enigma, ascend through its geographic heart. We have answered our first question "Is Congo's own great ape, the bonobo, found in TL2?" Yes it is? And so is Congo's endemic rainforest giraffe, the okapi and the rare Congo peacock. But, now the challenge is to bring real protection to the forests before the bonobo and all other large animals are hunted out.
We make a great team:
- John Hart, my husband, who has led exploration and inventory missions around Congo for the last 25 years, along with
- Five expert team leaders, Dino Tshwa, Maurice Emetshu, Crispin Kibambe, Christian Urom, and Ephrem Mpaka.
- All of us working closely with some 30-40 other staff, from dugout captain, to community project leader and from cooks to porters, all essential.
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