"When You Engage, You Do It to the End": Facing Poachers, the Fierce Fight of the Forest Guards of Chad

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GRAND REPORTAGE - In 1956, Romain Gary awarded the Goncourt Prize for the Racines du ciel, a manifest novel for the defense of elephants, whose action was taking place in Chad. Seventy years later, faced with a less romantic and more violent reality, the employees of the Zakouma National Park sometimes paid with their lives their mission of protecting pachyderms, but also giraffes and buffaloes.