Park guardians or destroyers? Study dissects 2 narratives of DRC’s Indigenous Batwa

Mongabay
Sep 11, 2025, 3:05 pm181 ptsTrendingTop
Long celebrated by some NGOs and Indigenous rights activists as the guardians of the forest, the Batwa of South Kivu had lived inside what is now Kahuzi-Biega National Park (KBNP) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) until the 20th century, when they were expelled by the Congolese government, at that time…

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Park guardians or destroyers? Study dissects 2 narratives of DRC’s Indigenous Batwa

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