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Conservation of Central Africa's forests and their extraordinary assemblages of wildlife is contingent on adequate protection of national parks and careful stewardship of surrounding forest concessions. Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) scientists have devoted the past decade to proving this proposition in the Republic of Congo. The foundation is supporting their efforts.The historic structure and diversity of tropical forests are in large measure a consequence of natural and human disturbance. Logging is a manageable disturbance. The social, cultural and economic disturbances that accompany logging — in-migration, dislocation of indigenous communities, market hunting, poaching — are less easily managed and more consequential to conservation. Beginning at Nouabalé Ndoki National Park and the surrounding forest concessions, WCS is leading an ambitious effort to protect Congo's national parks, to incorporate forest and wildlife management best practices into national policy and practice, to recognize traditional subsistence hunting rights, and to prevent illegal market hunting. |
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