I am hunting down the story but I’m not
your standard correspondent I’m a
wide-eyed enthusiastic guy that loves
the world we live in I mean of course
I’ve heard a lot about Congo but I can’t
sort of get away from these romantic
notions that my childhood built into my
head of peaked volcanoes of dense jungle
almost Tarzan like adventures Romancing
the Stone it’s an adventure as paradise
but as soon as you start drilling into
it you realize that this beautiful
paradise has such a complexity so many
layers essentially in the last 125 years
of this country’s history it’s been
viewed as a pot of gold a huge area of
immense natural wealth
there’s gold there’s diamonds there’s
complexed rare earth minerals tantalum
and coltan there’s timber this zinc
there’s all of these things that our
world needs and everyone from the
outside has viewed it as this treasure
trove and the one thing they seem to
have all had in mind is the
inconvenience of having people living
there being with innocent when we
stumbled upon the guerrillas was a
beautiful moment
here’s a guy whose charge is to protect
the most important section of the world
in relation to mountain gorillas more
than half of all the mountain gorillas
left in the world are in his area and
are his charge and this guy could see in
his eyes when we stumbled upon the
silverback in the gorillas they all sort
of hit me up see I was just thinking the
Rangers there have lost a hundred and
forty plus guys in the field doing what
they do to protect this beautiful
magnificent creature and locked him and
I asked him that is this why you do it
and he looked at me and didn’t have to
say anything it was just the power in
that feel so privileged to have been in
his company and those like him who just
stand in front of bullets for what they
feel and believe is right and the
defense of these creatures
your standard correspondent I’m a
wide-eyed enthusiastic guy that loves
the world we live in I mean of course
I’ve heard a lot about Congo but I can’t
sort of get away from these romantic
notions that my childhood built into my
head of peaked volcanoes of dense jungle
almost Tarzan like adventures Romancing
the Stone it’s an adventure as paradise
but as soon as you start drilling into
it you realize that this beautiful
paradise has such a complexity so many
layers essentially in the last 125 years
of this country’s history it’s been
viewed as a pot of gold a huge area of
immense natural wealth
there’s gold there’s diamonds there’s
complexed rare earth minerals tantalum
and coltan there’s timber this zinc
there’s all of these things that our
world needs and everyone from the
outside has viewed it as this treasure
trove and the one thing they seem to
have all had in mind is the
inconvenience of having people living
there being with innocent when we
stumbled upon the guerrillas was a
beautiful moment
here’s a guy whose charge is to protect
the most important section of the world
in relation to mountain gorillas more
than half of all the mountain gorillas
left in the world are in his area and
are his charge and this guy could see in
his eyes when we stumbled upon the
silverback in the gorillas they all sort
of hit me up see I was just thinking the
Rangers there have lost a hundred and
forty plus guys in the field doing what
they do to protect this beautiful
magnificent creature and locked him and
I asked him that is this why you do it
and he looked at me and didn’t have to
say anything it was just the power in
that feel so privileged to have been in
his company and those like him who just
stand in front of bullets for what they
feel and believe is right and the
defense of these creatures
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