
EnvironmentMay 1, 2020
How ‘Sustainable’ Development Ravaged the Congo Basin
Pygmies and wildlife coexisted for millennia—until conservation coupled with extractive industries arrived
Jerome Lewis is an associate professor of anthropology, director of the Center for the Anthropology of Sustainability and co-director of the Extreme Citizen Science group at University College London. In 2019 he founded Flourishing Diversity, an initiative to raise awareness of indigenous ways of protecting biodiversity.

How ‘Sustainable’ Development Ravaged the Congo Basin
Pygmies and wildlife coexisted for millennia—until conservation coupled with extractive industries arrived