In several countries of the Congo Basin, areas of forest, sometimes very large, are reserved for sport hunting, which is mostly conducted by foreign tourists from the United States and Europe. This practice, which is little talked about in the region, is inherited from the European colonial period. The question is whether it is adapted today to the delicate context in which the region's forests and their inhabitants are, and whether the African states concerned benefit from it, while some Western conservation scientists and hunters claim that trophy hunting funds millions of hectares of wild habitat. Fanny Pigeaud will lead this investigation for Afrique XXI.
