DZANGHA-SANGHA: EDEN IN THE CONGO
“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.