Charcoal illegal trade
As valuable timber becomes rare outside of parks, militias enter parks and illegally cut and produce charcoal inside parks – even the best protected park of the Virungas housing large shares of the Worlds remaining mountain gorilla population. Rangers here destroyed over a thousand kilns for charcoal inside the park in 2009.
Year: 2010
From collection: The Last Stand of the Gorilla - Environmental Crime and Conflict in the Congo Basin
Cartographer: Hugo Ahlenius