Inside Africa’s green heart, where wildlife rules the roost

The “Wabêafrîka”, as its citizens call themselves in the Sango language, are among the world’s poorest by per capita GDP, but their natural endowments are beyond measure. Beside one of the world’s highest concentrations of forest elephants, Dzanga-Sangha National Park is home to western lowland gorillas, chimpanzees, bongo, pangolins, buffalo, sitatunga, giant forest hogs, duikers, mangabeys and other monkey species. These animals were hunted for fun in the 1970s by the CAR’s…