The lush Lilungu forest lies between the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve to the north and the Sankuru Nature Reserve to the south and links a critical wildlife corridor in a vital area of bonobo habitat. It's also home to the Balanga people who care deeply about protecting bonobos and preserving the precious forest that is their shared home.
For almost 20 years the Bonobo Conservation Initiative (BCI) and Centre de Recherche en Écologie et Foresterie (CREF) have worked together to establish cooperative conservation and community-led development programs.
But their work is under increasing threat from out-of-control development, logging, mining, hunting, and wildlife trafficking — and with the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo now auctioning off oil and gas blocks, the Congo rainforest and all living there need protection more than ever.
Every €1 donated is another acre of the Lilungu forest that we can help secure…creating a magnificent nature reserve in the heart of the Congo rainforest where local communities and endangered bonobos can live in harmony.
Local community leaders are ready to protect their forest — they just need funds to do it.
Remember, EkÅ is matching your donation, doubling the impact we make together — can you chip in now to make the Lilungu Nature Reserve a reality?
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