Empower local people to protect local wildlife, habitats, and traditional ways of living

Help ease pressure on eastern DRC's natural environment, help indigenous families thrive, 
and help protect the most threatened population of gorillas on Earth. 

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Build communities up

Strong Roots Congo exists to empower communities in and around Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Itombwe Nature Reserve, and on the corridor linking these areas.

With our partners, we help conserve the biodiversity of this place by combining scientific tools with traditional community knowledge. We create opportunities for livelihood and economic development in communities plundered by conflict.

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On the Kahuzi-Biega - Itombwe Landscape, Strong Roots Congo works to build programs that balance the needs of human communities with those of forests and wildlife.

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You help​ communities build capacity to...

Understand, stop, and even reverse deforestation trends.

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Overcome generations of sustained poverty

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Train the next generation of grassroots conservationists

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Manage lands where animal populations can recover

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Reclaim ownership of their traditional lands

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