Kahuzi-Biega National Park

Pygmies, soldier killed in clashes over DR Congo park

In 2018, Pygmies began to move onto land inside the perimeter of Kahuzi-Biega National Park and started to cut down trees, mainly to make charcoal
According to park authorities, Pygmies have destroyed vast acres of woodland — an act of deforestation that gnaws away at the habitat of endangered gorillas

By AFP · 02 December 2020