The Okapi Reserve

Category: General | Date: Oct 14 2007 | By: admin

In the year 1992, Mr. Jonathan one of the tourists visiting the Okapi Faunal Reserve landscape found the death in Epulu. According to his family and his wife who witnessed that they could not be convinced that Jonathan should die in such river because he was proclaimed as the first swimmer of the world… Himself with some tourists swimmer in Epulu, but he was taking away with the river. One year later, Miss Sandy from American who teaches the 2 daughters of Mr. John Hart lost her arm by crocodile. This means, the Epulu has many bad things: rocks, crocodile… cannot let someone to survive once drowned

As I wrote in my previous blog, the four national road crosses the Reserve, and is constructed by a Chinese Enterprise named SINOHYDRO CORPORATION. Chinese engineers work with Congolese citizen. One of the Chinese Engineer called Mr. GUO died in Epulu by suicide for reason which escaped all of us.

Four expeditions were organized for checking in the river by some fishermen, and in the long side of this. The manager of the Reserve facilitated the expedition by supporting the team with a ranger with a communication satellite phone this for knowing what is happen in deep forest.

Fisher men in traditional canoe searching the corpse

Epulu village Chief with the team in forest

Mozas communicating with the headquarter about the discovery of Mr.GUO corpse in Epulu