Young pygmy girls pounding cassava (photo Kim Gjerstad). In 2010 a cry of alarm went out to local government officials, military authorities, and traditional chiefs: “We are losing our elephants; Poachers slaughter elephants, terrorize villagers and subjugate pygmies. The military stationed around the Okapi Reserve supply poachers with arms and ammunition.” The letters were sent […]
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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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