WCS-Congo Projects
For the past 15 years WCS-Congo has been assisting the government in managing wildlife and its habitat in national parks, reserves, buffer zones, and multiple-use forests in the Republic of Congo.
In 1993 WCS field staff worked with the government to set aside an un-logged forestry concession as the Nouabale-Ndoki National Park (NNNP), and in 2001 convinced the government and the CIB logging company and the government to annex the Goualougo triangle to the NNNP - an area where humans have rarely entered and the wildlife appear naïve and unafraid.
The Nouabalé-Ndoki Buffer Zone Project, a collaborative project between WCS-Congo, the Government of Congo, the timber company CIB (Congolaise Industrielle du Bois) and the local community, was created in 1999 to reduce the negative impacts of logging on the national park. WCS field staff have been working alongside the government in the Conkouati-Douli national park since 2000, and full-time WCS staff have been working in the Lac Télé Community Reserve since the same year.
WCS is currently advising the government on the creation of a new national park in the Batéké plateau area in the south west of the country, as well as providing technical advice on the management of the peripheral zone of the Odzala-Kokoua National Park. Our field staff are leaders in training the next generation of national park managers, biologists, and community conservationists.