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...conservationists want to preserve the Ndoki, but they're not all convinced that the current plan is the right way. Will the proposed park encompassing 450,000 hectares (1.1 million acres) in the forest core be a safe refuge? Or will it bring hordes of loggers, developers and tourists into the surrounding territory...
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...
...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...
...Bomassa, but probably not enough to attract a large wave of newcomers. Of the three merchants who moved into Bomassa anticipating a boom, two have already relocated in disappointment. That's just fine with the park advocates, whose purpose is not to create new fortunes but to save the Ndoki's irreplaceable natural treasures...
...this drama, we are the aliens. We have ventured into the last vast unexplored rain forest on earth -- the unsullied Ndoki region of northern Congo -- a place where the animals do not know what to make of us because they have never seen humans before...