A shootout last month in Congo’s Garamba National Park, in which three rangers and a Congolese army colonel were killed, highlights the challenge of protecting parks in a part of Africa plagued for decades by insurgencies, civil war, refugee flows, and weak governments. It shows how some conservation efforts resemble a kind of guerrilla warfare in which rangers and soldiers stalk—and are stalked by—poachers who are slaughtering Africa’s elephants and other wildlife.
Link: U.S. News & World Report