According to National Geographic
(www.nationalgeographic.com), the Wildlife Conservation Society biologist Mike
Fay began his journey with assisting in establishing the Nouabalé-Ndoki National
Park in the Republic of the Congo. The intention of his work is to record the
diversity of forest plants and animals hoping to conserve the rapidly
disappearing wilderness.
... led is his team into a
vast thicket so dense that the only view was up....
On his way through the dense
jungle, Fay and his men come to a place where the gorillas once where settled.
But among the trees they didn't see any gorillas, and they assumed that the
animals had died off following an outbreak of Ebola. Later on the journey they
encountered a wild life they ever had dreamed about.
In the Magazine National Geographic
(March 2001) there are several photos of gorillas and a stunning nature from
Odzala in Congo. In this area you find the largest concentration of lowland
gorillas. This expedition gives Fay an opportunity to study the relationship
between humans and forest. It shows what happens when humans intrude upon this
land.
Now a days the central African
forest is threaten by logging. Will the national government and conversation
organisations be able to preserve the area in the future? Or is it just a matter
of time before it is all gone? One thing is sure: this is probably one of the
last untouched areas in the world, and a place where real explorers should go!
Stein
Morten Lund, 5 April 2001
Additional
information
Read more about the incredible
expedition on the links below:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/03/0323_megatransect2.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/congotrek/
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