Border Demarcation at Sarambwe

Between Saturday the 5th and Monday the 7th April, 2003, we were in the field to inaugurate the task of establishing the limits of Sarambwe. In a meeting held at Rutshuru with the Mwami (traditional Chief), the conservator of the Rutshuru Hunting Domain, the ICCN representative, a representative of the local association RECOGOSA (Réserve Communautaire de Sarambwe - Sarambwe Community Reserve) and some of the local population of Rutshuru, a pilot action committee was constituted, with the Mwami as President and the Conservator of Rutshuru (Virunga National Park) and the RECOGOSA representative as members.
On the Sunday, the local population was made aware of the need to establish the limits of Sarambwe. On the Monday, 60 people were recruited to clear a 5 m-wide forest track for 6,000 m, to look for young Erythrina trees; they were under the direction of three persons, namely an agronomist from the environmental program around the Virunga National Park, a representative of RECOGOSA and a local chief (representing the Mwami). The ICCN is responsible for the security of the workers and the apportionment of their tasks.
The recruitment continued and the work started on April 10. 138 people participated - and all parts of the population were represented. A track of 9,000 m was cleared and planted with 2,200 Erythrina trees.

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Claude Sikubwabo Kiyengo

Claude Sikubwabo Kiyengo conducted a gorilla survey in the Maiko National Park from 1989 to 1992, and in 1994 he took part in the gorilla census in Kahuzi-Biega. After that he worked for the ICCN in Goma and from 2000 to 2004 for the IUCN program PPP. After having worked for IUCN to develop programs that will be implemented during the next years, he joined ICCN again in 2006.

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