DZANGHA-SANGHA: EDEN IN THE CONGO

Andy Isaacson - DSC06977-1663.jpg

“For now, we are lucky, we have only local poachers. But the day that people from south Sudan, Chad, or northern Cameroon arrive here, it will be a war. And we have to be ready.” — Luis Arranz, park director

In the heart of the Congo Basin, Central African Republic’s Dzanga-Sangha Protected Area is home to extraordinary gatherings of forest elephants, habituated western lowland gorillas, and an indigenous forest people, the BaAka, who still practice the ancient ways.