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Kindu-gate: Sorcerers Mess with the Money

March 22, 2010 – 8:03 pm

When, at the end of February 2010, thousands of dollars went missing from the safe-box kept in the governor’s office in Maniema (some say 75,000 USD, others say more), there was a good explanation. The explanation was presented officially in an understated manner by the provincial Minister of Sports, Art and Information who addressed the [...]

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John’s Kindu Morning Upstream on the Congo

March 7, 2010 – 2:57 pm

It’s the same routine every morning when Mama T is far off in Kinshasa. These first hours of the morning determine the course of the day. I wake before dawn with the crowing of neighborhood cocks. Our cacophonous guinea fowls follow. I check the time on my cell phone on the little table at the [...]

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World Wide Web in Kindu

March 1, 2010 – 12:41 pm

A few years back, the American Aid Organization, USAID, provided support for an enterprising NGO to open an internet access point in Kindu, the first ever for this provincial capital. Its name, Horizon, reflects its forward-looking aspirations. It is still one of only two public connections to the World Wide Web in the entire province. [...]

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BUSHMEAT 9: A Congo Chronology of Bushmeat

November 15, 2009 – 1:54 pm

Is it possible to stop Congo’s massive commercial hunting before the forests are empty of animals? Maybe, and maybe it is easier than we thought. Here is the story: What we saw 2007 – early 2009: During 2007 and 2008, the TL2 project inventoried intact forest — with low, or no human population — between [...]

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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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