The DRC you don’t see in the news
by on FEBRUARY 16, 2012
Richard Stupart shares these journal entries and images from the Democratic Republic of Congo, without a single Joseph Conrad reference.
– Somewhere in the Epulu Forest, 26 December 2011
I WALK HALFWAY back to the okapi pens to make field recordings of the forest noises and the faint rushing of the Epulu River behind me. Watching the light change in the forest as I sit monitoring the recorder levels in silence, I am reminded — or perhaps realise for the first time — how strange this place can be. The different sounds in the trees as the birds sing, some acrobatic, mouselike creature leaping from tree trunk to tree trunk just beneath the canopy. The yellow and green of moss and damp leaves bundles between the giant buttress roots pushing out from the forest floor. If “fecund” ever described a place accurately, it’s here.
Normalcy is perhaps the most profound lesson of this place. Just how durable the fabric of human routine can be.
This is a neat article, with a great photo collection at the bottom... Hope you'll read the entire article and enjoy the pictures! love, Bethany
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