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Project blog: Maiko National Park Conservation Project
04 April 2012, 01:44 | Adrien Vetterli
TINGI-TINGI: FROM THE TRIBUNAL TO TRIBAL RITUALS

Putting together and actually making a project like the Tingi-Tingi ranger training camp happen is a tall order. It started with and idea that had already been put into practice in Ishango, in the north sector of Virunga National Park, where FZS established a training camp a few years back. Having rangers that are physically, technically and mentally ready is the condition sine qua non to establish a successful protected area because poachers and people hunting illegally are very well organized, if not better than governmental employees. The blueprints for the new...

29 March 2012, 11:00 | Adrien Vetterli
THE TINGI-TINGI RANGER TRAINING CAMP

Almost 30 years after an austrian general contractor took on the challenge of building a portion of the Trans African highway through one of the most remote part of DR Congo, the Frankfurt Zoloogical Society is about to start rehabilitating one of the former local headquarters of the company along the road, effectively launching the rebirth of the infrastructures that will support the development and safeguarding of the Maiko National Park.

There is something quite odd about the Transafrican highway between Lubutu and L'Osso, at the border of Maniema...

23 March 2012, 02:53 | Radu Dumitrascu
THE CROCODILE OF THE LUBILINGA RIVER

A few days back, a story circulated about a kid who had been attacked by a crocodile in a nearby village. These big reptiles are not notorious for killing humans in the region, because people know where they hunt, usually in larger and deeper rivers where the current is slower. It seems, however, that one ferocious individual had been creating trouble for a while in the Lubilinga River, a water curse streaming along the border of Maiko National Park. Sadly enough, it culminated in the death of a teenager going by the nickname “Showman”.

Like many...