I’m headed out to the field in the morning, so no time for a long post. One of the best parts of travel area all of the crazy things you see. Most are hard to capture, and are quickly forgotten,…
Mount Nyiragongo
There are some of those things that you dream of without really thinking it through. Hiking Mount Nyiragongo, the world’s most active volcano just outside of Goma, DRC, was one of those times.For months I had been dreaming it, not…
Bonobos!
It seems that I can’t keep track of my own adventures to share with friends, family and beyond. I suppose I’ll start from where I’m at and share adventures of wildlife, hiking volcanoes, and other adventures in the days and…
Media Attention to Congo
The last several weeks of media attention to eastern Congo came as a bit of a surprise. After twenty years of documented use of rape as a weapon of war in these parts – unfortunately in many other places as…
Tragedy in Paradise
It is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Simply breathtaking. It is also the site of horrific abuses of human rights. The short story is that there have been attacks on a village that I visited back in…
Say No to Conflict Minerals
HI Folks, As I’ve shared many times over, conflict minerals (i.e. your cell phone/laptop/ipod, etc) are fueling conflict here in the DRC. Please do your part by telling electronics companies that you aren’t interested in fueling wars and sexual violence.…
So No to Conflict Minerals
HI Folks, As I’ve shared many times over, conflict minerals (i.e. your cell phone/laptop/ipod, etc) are fueling conflict here in the DRC. Please do your part by telling electronics companies that you aren’t interested in fueling wars and sexual violence.…
MONUC leaving DRC
UN discussing DR Congo withdrawal The UN has begun talks with Democratic Republic of Congo on withdrawing its peacekeeping mission – the biggest UN operation in the world. UN peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy said his officials would take a…
United Nations Teaches DRC Women to Tackle Rape
United Nations Teaches Democratic Republic of Congo Women to Tackle RapeAFP, 15 February 2010Five goats and some money used to be the price to forget an act of rape in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but United…
Jungle
There is ironically and sadly, only one positive side effect to the raping of the earth for these minerals. This would be the inadvertent preservation of the Congo River basin’s jungle. See the thing is, the minerals are so lucrative…