Symbol of Pride

By Emma Stokes | November 7, 2019

In the northeast corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo, at the heart of the Congolese rainforest, sits the Okapi Wildlife Reserve. The reserve is more than one-and-a-half times the size of Yellowstone National Park and it harbors the single largest remaining population of okapis anywhere.

An okapi is a shy, solitary forest animal related to a giraffe. In reality, it…

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