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Most controversial is the involvement of the World Bank, which administers the Global Environment Facility, the Ndoki park's main sponsor. The bank has been notorious for financing ecologically damaging dams, highways and other grandiose projects all over the globe. Even park proponent Michael Fay admits that asking the bank to protect a pristine area is "a little like giving a bank robber a million dollars to install your security system...
...Fay says criticism has spurred the World Bank to mend its ways. And on close inspection, many of the concerns about the bank's role turn out to be unfounded. For instance, critics such as Greenpeace have argued that the Ndoki park proposal is linked with a loan to Congo that would promote logging. In fact, there is no linkage, and the loan has been tabled because Congo is behind on paying debts. Opponents have also contended that plans for building a road and improving the navigability of the Ndoki River will open the area to those who would exploit...
...Fay concedes that the plan involves compromises and depends on the future good faith of the Congolese government, which is currently racked by turmoil and corruption. Once Congo elects a new government, the strong arm of the World Bank could prove helpful in ensuring that the country honor agreements prohibiting any economic activity in the core area...
...expedition, led by botanist Michael Fay of Wildlife Conservation International, has taken us to parts of the forest we believe no human has ever seen. We are catching a glimpse of the rarest treasure on this crowded planet: an ecosystem as pristine today as it was 12,000 years ago, before humans began to transform the earth. Our journey into unknown territory is a grand adventure, one that is as exciting as it is daunting. At one point, Fay must persuade apprehensive Pygmy trackers to continue through the Ndoki, for legend holds that the forest is home to Mokele Mbembe...
...first heard about the Ndoki three years ago, when Fay told me about this wondrous forest where gorillas, chimps and other animals do not run away at the sight of humans. At the time, I was researching an article on great apes, and I thought Fay was exaggerating. I had spent fruitless days trying to get glimpses of chimps and gorillas in forests just to the north of the Ndoki, and it was hard for me to imagine that Africa might still contain forests so remote that the animals had never learned to fear mankind. Western lowland gorillas, hunted...