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At the busy Port of Matadi, the largest deep-water port in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Thomas Bile Bekoka, an inspector at the Office National des Transports (ONATRA), has long focused on port logistics. However, like many of…

Chance Conservationists is a series highlighting AWF staff who have embraced people-centered conservation in their professions despite coming from diverse academic fields. These remarkable individuals now espouse conservation values to propel the…

Tall trees, year-round warmth, friendly faces…and bonobos as far as the eye can see. This could be the front cover of a flyer pitching a world-class holiday destination. Behind the large, stylishly designed text in Times New Roman or Verdana…

Wildlife enthusiasts generally know a lot about our closest cousins in the natural world, chimpanzees. But often they know less about a primate that is equally close and just as fascinating — the bonobo, “the forgotten ape."Like chimpanzees, bonobos…

Fact: The plight of mountain gorillas cannot be separated from the plight of people. Human population densities in the mountain gorilla region can touch in some areas to 1,000 people per square kilometer (note, that's more than 2,500 people…

My previous blogs have brought up how difficult forest elephants are to see, and therefore study. Much of the research on forest elephants has actually been on their dung to obtain information about the elephant.Forest elephants defecate roughly 17…

Compared to Africa’s other great apes, the bonobo has been relatively less studied. Its geographic range stretches 500,000 square kilometers across the Democratic Republic of Congo’s remotest tropical forests — difficult-to-reach areas with a…

Patience Bongole Bolumbu, a 49-year-old mother of four, stands beside a chalkboard in her modest workshop in Bongandanga, a town within the Maringa-Lopori-Wamba Landscape north-central of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Dressed in a…

A Boat Ride Into the Congo At the moment we are deep in the Nairobi Headquarters section of the project; we have almost another month here yet. Our work is an eclectic mix of different aspects of different projects, from having…

The Maringa-Lopori-Wamba (MLW) landscape in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) spans 74,000 square kilometers—an area roughly the size of Ireland. Located in Equateur Province northeast of Kinshasa, the nation’s capital, it is a sanctuary for…