Couverture de S2, Ep: 1 part 1, Dominique Bikaba - Strong Roots, Eastern Lowland Gorilla Conservation, DRC

S2, Ep: 1 part 1, Dominique Bikaba - Strong Roots, Eastern Lowland Gorilla Conservation, DRC

S2, Ep: 1 part 1, Dominique Bikaba - Strong Roots, Eastern Lowland Gorilla Conservation, DRC

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 Dominique Bikaba is Executive Director of Strong Roots, a conservation NGO working in the Democratic Republic of Congo to protect Great Apes and their Congo Basin Forest habitat for the benefit of humans and animals. Dominique received the Whitley Award in 2018, in recognition of his innovative community based conservation prioritising indigenous knowledge and concerns. He was speaking with me from Bakavu, a town not far from the forest where he was born. Dominique's family lived in what is now Kahuzi-Biega National Park, he learnt about wildlife from his grandmother who would take him into the forest from which she was evicted in the 70's under the banner of conservation. The area is now under threat from illegal mining, and ill judged western led conservation models which exclude the Batwa Pygmys who live there. In contrast local chiefs are providing protection by allocating their ancestral land to extend wildlife corridors which support biodiversity and the Gorillas, using traditional ecological knowledge within a model of community based conservation, which also protects humans from nature loss and emphasises the cultural value of biodiversity. Our conversation is split into 2 episodes, in part 1 we discuss Great Apes conservation, threats to the Congo Basin Forest, the politics of funding, failing western conservation models, indigenous ecological knowledge and community based conservation. In part two we talk about Dom's personal relationship with the forest, the eviction of forest peoples and the disenfranchisement of Batwa pygmys from their ancestral land, and continue our discussion about colonialism, racism, conservation methodology and the importance of preserving habitats for people and wildlife.
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