So soldier was fleeing in the Okapi Faunal Reserve.

After a week, we celebrated the birthday of that Okapi, they killed an elephant, just 50 meters to the area where the zoo, where Okapi was born.

So they might go through, pass through the Okapi Faunal Reserve.

And it has been named Okapi Faunal Reserve because of this beautiful creature.

And the Okapi Faunal Reserve is there, so there was a road from Goma, somewhere here, and coming like this.

Congo has five of the world's richest sites of protected area, and the Okapi Faunal Reserve is one of them.

And during the war, after a week of heavy war, fighting in the area, we succeeded we had the first Okapi.

During the reporting period, Radio Okapi launched additional programming on its short wave frequency devoted to voter education regarding the electoral process.

So, the Okapi Faunal Reserve protects number I think that is the largest number of elephants we have right now in protected areas in Congo.

Radio Okapi has launched a new programme on civic education, which is broadcast every weekday in five languages and closes with a debate on Fridays.

They are now happy sending the news that they have protected the Okapi with the war, because we sent the news that they are killing and poaching everywhere.

Botanist Corneille Ewango talks about his work at the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the Congo Basin and his heroic work protecting it from poachers, miners and raging civil wars.