NORTH KIVU, Congo — Nana sleeps on a pillow of marijuana ... there are few laws that can’t be bent. (National Geographic is not using full identifications of those involved in the marijuana ...

"The last 15 years of Congo's history ... interview with National Geographic News, Ngobobo's former supervisor, Honore Mashagiru, dismissed those allegations. "People say things, but where's ...

Deep in the heart of Odzala-Kokoua National Park ... the Ba’Aka—a forest-dwelling people indigenous to the Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Gabon, and Cameroon—stories of ...

This story appears in the October 2015 issue of National Geographic ... live in the Congo River Basin. The greatest threat to many is the commercial wildlife trade. Local people depend on bush ...

Conserv Congo brought ... “Other people come as part of their job, but it’s not their responsibility to protect what’s ours.” The National Geographic Society has funded Adams Cassinga ...

“Sans les gens il n’y a rien—without people, there is nothing,” he says. The sun sets on an overcrowded barge as it chugs up the Congo. We are talking in my office at National Geographic ...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, activists terrorized ... rebel group known by the acronym CNDP (National Congress for the Defence of the People.) “We told him, ‘my son, rebellion ...

But National Geographic's Emerging Explorers program ... for Neanderthals and a warden in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Virunga National Park who puts his life on the line every ...

If volcanologists invent an instrument that can measure the interplay of beauty and menace, Nyiragongo, on the eastern edge of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the province of North Kivu ...

Kambasu, the head of a local fishermen's cooperative, has invited me on an early morning tour of the lake—located within Virunga National ... as a friend of Congo's people and its wildlife.

National Geographic photographer Marcus Bleasdale finds beauty in trauma. His work in the Congo is featured in the ... that's something that a lot of people were familiar with a decade ago ...