The Democratic Republic of Congo to create the Earth’s largest protected tropical forest reserve

The Congo Basin, the largest tropical forest carbon sink in the world, is threatened by war, poverty and the climate crisis.

A new model of green economic development, conservation and peacebuilding in eastern DRC is protecting the forest while sustainably harnessing natural resources to benefit local communities.

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I found this website that promotes Indigenous Peoples Rights of Africa. There is a Petition for "Indigenous Environment Defenders to African Governments" at the bottom of the page, but it seems like I am unable to sign it at the moment.

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Deep in the emerald tangle of the Congo Basin, something happened that paralyzed even science.

A bonobo wild, free, and full of soul was spotted in Salonga National Park... holding a baby mongoose. Not hunting it. Not harming it.

Just... holding it. Gently. Like a mother.

Like a friend. Like someone who knows the value of life.

Captured by award-winning photographer Christian Ziegler, the moment feels like an otherworldly whisper: the bonobo sitting silently, its gaze soft, protectively embracing a creature that is not its own.

No drama. No threat. Just empathy, in the middle of the jungle.

And after a while? It released the little mongoose.

The photo won a grand prize in the 2023 Nature inFocus competition, but it gave us something even more valuable: proof that compassion isn't exclusive to humans.

Bonobos share 98% of our DNA. But at that moment, they also shared something else: kindness.

So the next time someone says "it's just an animal"... Show them this.

The Congo Basin is in located in what is known as Central Africa, in the region west equatorial Africa. Before colonialization and still till this day scarification was practiced. The Congo holds some of the worlds most complex scarification methods and designs. The Body modification process is usually just talked of as a way to show ones beauty and to eroticize. However it also had to with ones place in society, it dealt with memory. It showed social process how people navigation through their community, their affliction. The marks indicated social rank , social status, or martial status. Marks showed if a person with a womb have given child birth. The marks could also be an indicator of a membership in a male or female secret initiatory society. If a person refused to participate in this process of marking, their life would face difficulties and it would be hard for them to participate in social life.

Source for text : The Etribal

1 - Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lega peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE.

2 - Lega woman with facial scarification and elaborate hairstyle, Kabila village, Congo (Democratic Republic), by Eliot Elisofon August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.

3 - Old mask - Metal, Wood - Ngbandi, Ngbaka - Democratic Republic of Congo Early / Mid 20th Century

4 - Man of M’Bouaka in Province de l'Equateur. Parmi les M'Bouaka by Casimir Zagourski 1924-1941.

5 - Democratic Republic of the Congo; Luba artist, Attributed to the workshop of the Master of Mulongo, Headrest, Mid-late 19th century. Shot by Franko Khoury.

6 - Illustration of a Baluba negroes from Abiangi

7 - Luba figurine 1909; 1909.29.1

8 - Tabwa artist, Democratic Republic of the Congo, scarification. Photo court. Photographer unknown.

9 - Ubangi region, Congo, Ngbaka. Mask, 19th century. Wood,