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Covering an area about the size of Switzerland, the Bili-Uele Protected Area Complex in northern DRC is facing pressures from mining, deforestation, and insecurity, all of which threaten important wildlife habitat. AWF has worked in the area since…

New eco-guards enrich the Iyondji Community Bonobo Reserve’s Management Structure, created under CARPE II in northern DRCIn the territory of Djolu, Tshuapa District, Equator Province, the first class of “ecology guards” completed their combined…

On the muddy and dusty roads of the Congo Basin’s Maringa Lopori Wamba landscape, a motorcycle rider named Jeancy Luaka Mabwandaka has become an unexpected champion for conservation. His daily journeys help connect remote communities with the…

After a three-hour ride on the back of a 125cc motorcycle from Djolu, a small town in AWF’s Congo landscape in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), we came across a boisterous group of boys rushing up a trail through the dense woods carrying…

Jean Niwiya has known both sides of the illegal wildlife trade. Before 2015, the 39-year-old father of eight made his living snaring small wildlife in the expansive Bili forest in the Bas-Uele Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo and selling…

Poverty in tropical Africa is often described as a trap because it is a curbing, undesirable circumstance from which escape is difficult. Academics around the world believe it, according to a September 2014 online article in The Economist. But,…

The local communities of the Maringa-Lopori-Wamba (MLW) landscape in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) largely depend on the forest for their survival including agriculture, cultural value, and other non-timber forest products. However, the…

For the first time, everyday Congolese are taking an active role in the conservation of their country’s bonobos. In the Congo landscape, AWF has trained 50 people from the Congolese wildlife authority, Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la…

In the heart of the Congo Basin rainforest, nestled over 3,000 kilometers northeast of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, lies the Bili-Uele Protected Area Complex—a sanctuary spanning over 40,000 square kilometers…

Women of Bili-Uere have been cooking with firewood for a long time, choked by the smoke, perfumed by the pungent smell of charcoal, and often limited to cooking outdoors, which becomes increasingly challenging during bad weather.The traditional…