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Territory and Power
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CBFP's mandate emphasized
“Sustainable Forest Management,” United Nations Department
of Economic and Social Affairs,
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/climate-change/reforest-
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BCI's 2011 revenue reached
2011 financial statements and auditor's report, submitted by
Raffa, Inc. to the Board of Trustees of the African Wildlife Foundation, Inc., dated October
cial%20Statement%202011.pdf
;
2011 Annual Report
, World Wildlife Fund,
ht-
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When BCI petitioned
All information offered here is according to BCI sources: Sally Coxe, Mi-
chael Hurley, Alden Almquist, and John Scherlis.
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Between 2002 and 2011 note 1:
Indirectly, BCI received $25,000 of Congo Basin Forest Part-
nership funds. They were channeled through Conservation International and given to BCI with
only one week to spend it before the official project end date. They also received funds for a biod-
iesel project.
Furthermore, the conflict with the African Widlife Foundation illustrated the degree to which
misguided actions can endure in the memories of the local people. One story that I heard several
times from local people in Djolu and Kokolopori was about when AWF hired Vie Sauvage to do
a survey. AWF let them use two bicycles and approximately a dozen flashlights. The Congolese
working on the project were outraged when, after its completion, AWF requested the return of the
bicycles and flashlights. Given the poverty of the region and the lack of any such tools, the Con-
golese refused, intending to use the equipment to do their own conservation work, in Kokolopori
and the nearby conservation sites they were developing. Albert Lokasola interceded, explaining to
AWF the importance of resource sharing. Negotiations revealed that AWF's USAID funding stip-
ulated that all materials valuing less than $2000 should be left with local partners. But the damage
had been done. It was the sort of information that villagers shared often, and clearly, the worth of
such objects could in no way compete with the loyalty to be gained by letting people keep them.
note 2:
The funds that USAID allocated to the CBFP are as follows: 2002-2005: $12 million
annually dedicated to landscapes; 2006-2011: $10 million annually dedicated to landscapes, with
a 100% match requirement.
Evaluation of the Central African Regional Program for the En-
vironment—Phase II
, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Decem-
ber 2010,
http://carpe.umd.edu/Documents/2011/
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Even after the Kokolopori note 1:
This issue was only recently resolved by the cartographers at
the University of Maryland, and the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve is now on the map.
note 2:
As of the writing of this topic, AWF's website read: “At the request of local communit-
ies—who saw the success and economic benefits to the community that arose from the establish-
ment of the nearby Lomako-Yokokala Faunal Reserve—AWF worked with local stakeholders and
the Iyondji community to establish another protected area in which bonobos can live free of ex-
ternal threat.
“Iyondji is a priority conservation target, as it has a high concentration of bonobos and an intact
forest. It is also situated on the periphery of the already-safeguarded Luo Scientific Reserve, al-
lowing for an immediate expansion of core protected habitat.”
The website does not mention the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve, which is contiguous with
AWF's new Iyondji Reserve (created in 2012)—as close to it as the Luo Scientific Reserve
and far closer than the Lomako-Yokokala Faunal Reserve (which is approximately one hundred
