Murder, rape, arson, immolating children and mutilating corpses are among some of the rights abuses allegedly being carried out against indigenous people by the military and forest rangers at Kahuzi…
The Batwa Indigenous peoples lived in the Kahuzi-Biega forests of present-day Democratic Republic of Congo for centuries before Belgian colonial rule imposed formal change in 1937 with the establishment of the Zoological and Forest Reserve of Mount Kahuzi. The Batwa were never consulted nor compensated as the legal status of their ancestral lands changed. Colonial […]
Eco-guardians of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park. https://www.youtube.com/embed/l lPNbNqUc A project by Robert Carrubba and Cintia Garai/Wildlife Messengers. Photography by Robert Carrubba. As a nonprofit journalism organization, we depend on your.