Biodiversity Conservation related violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Anchored in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this article looks at the hidden face of biodiversity conservation. Based on widely studied facts in the protected area of the Virunga National Park, it aims to share a warlike reality generating multiple acts of violence against local populations in the name of biodiversity protection. We therefore call for the questioning of a global conservation strategy whose actors, on the ground, offer, if none, little room – territorially and in the management of the area – to the populations directly affected by their arrival…

Article published as part of a collaboration between the Climate Security & Peace Project (CS2P) of the NGO Climates and the Climate, Energy and Security Program of IRIS.