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For nearly two decades WCS has assisted the government in managing national parks, reserves and buffer zones 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 CIB logging company and the government to annex the Gouloago triangle to the NNNP – an area of northern Congo where humans have rarely entered and the wildlife appear naïve and unafraid.

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 2003, following a feasibility study conducted between 2000 and 2002. 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 to staff managing the buffer 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.

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