Intensifying agriculture and urbanization is the best way to save what wild places remain For the villager, who asks to be identified only as Bernadette, life is a running battle. On tiny plots of corn, millet and sweet potatoes next to Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she and her neighbors scrape a bare subsistence for themselves and their children. Her sweet potatoes, she told us last year, are under constant…
How modern agriculture can save the gorillas of Virunga
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