Translated from French by an automated online translation service, so please excuse the roughness. See link for original. Thank you to Anne Dillon for volunteering time to finding these French articles and doing the online translating.
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In the province of Tshopo, the NGO International Green Ray Congo Basin, ICCN partner in the project of creation of the Lomami park, denounced the intensification of poaching activities in the Opala territor
According to its provincial representative, Timothy Kombozi, dozens of parrots are captured and elephants slaughtered by poachers.
“When we arrived, we deplored the capture of parrots and slaughter of elephants. That is why today we are launching a cry of alarm so that such activities cannot grow; that the government take effective measures to protect the area,” he told Radio Okapi.
The provincial representative of the International Green Ray Congo Basin points the finger in this practice to the armed men of the rebel Colonel Thoms Mesandu, and other hunters from the Opala territory and the neighboring province of Maniema.