The eco-guard Emmanuel Bahati Lukoo is a curator at the Kahuzi-Biega National Park after having long been posted to the nearby Virunga Park. These two forest complexes in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are protected areas but are preyed on by armed groups, poaching, deforestation. He tells the hard realities of his profession. Devoted to "a cause greater than himself", he demands more recognition for the eco-guards, whi…
The eco-guard Emmanuel Bahati Lukoo is a curator at the Kahuzi-Biega National Park after having long been posted to the nearby Virunga Park. These two forest complexes in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are protected areas but are preyed on by armed groups, poaching, deforestation. He tells the hard realities of his profession. Devoted to "a cause greater than himself", he demands more recognition for the eco-guards, whi…