The Congo’s Dinosaur of Discord

The Congo’s Dinosaur of Discord

Central Africa’s steaming rainforest canopies stretch, like a green ocean, to the horizon. Below, long, winding rivers thread through the wilderness — sometimes a silty shade of brown, other times a clear blue beneath an open sky. Forest elephants stomp through the undergrowth, hornbills circle overhead and silverback gorillas brood in the shadows. And somewhere in this primordial expanse lurks a dinosaur.  Emmanuel Mambou, a fisher who lives in…