African Grey parrots, unlike dodos (above), are still alive and in the wild. But corruption, as in paying off the “traffic cops”, is pushing them ever closer to extinction. A little money in the right place is all that is needed to swing a parrot cargo around “traffic jams” caused by a few inconvenient legal […]
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About Terese and John Hart
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We started this blog in 2007 when we took up the challenge of the TL2 area, a mainly forested wilderness block in the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo that had never been explored. A small American NGO, Lukuru, took us on. John trained field teams. Soon we and our teams were piling up discoveries: new species, new distributions, new dangers, new friends, and beautiful new places to walk, watch and be at home. For more about TL2 and our new next adventure _read on.
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teresehart AT gmail DOT com
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WHAT IS TL2? IT IS THIS FOREST ↓↓
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OUR MISSION
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Connaître et Protéger = Know and Protect. Our mission is to assist the Democratic Republic of Congo in the conservation of its rare and/or disappearing species and to promote knowledge and protection of its least altered and largest wilderness areas. These latter help global climatic stability and nurture key biodiversity that, in turn, nurtures the human world. For more_read here.
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