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Adriane Ohanesian

Many of Madagascar’s lemurs, animals found nowhere else in the world, spend most of their time high in trees such as these in Ranomafana National Park.

Hunters sometimes use traps made of a single log and a square of small branches to catch lemurs illegally for their meat, as in this protected area.

Clearing of forests threatens the island’s spectacular biodiversity, key to a tourism industry worth nearly a billion dollars a year—until the pandemic shut it down.

Marcellina (centre), a ranger who survived the attack, stands at attention over the grave of her colleague. Antopo Selemani, 37, was among the four rangers and one porter killed in July 2017.

Coffins containing five people killed at a ranger outpost are loaded into a truck to be transported to the burial ground across the Epulu River.

The Epulu River flows through the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the conflict-ridden eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Surrounded by rebel groups and rich in mines, violence haunts the Okapi Wildlife Reserve. In 2012, the rangers' headquarters were burned down and six people were killed.

Congolese soldiers and Okapi park rangers accompany the bodies of those killed by rebels while guarding a defunct illegal gold mine.

Guards in the town of Epulu watch over two men who were arrested after being caught with eight diamonds while mining inside the Okapi Wildlife Reserve.

Okapi Wildlife Reserve park rangers watch as the bodies of their colleagues are lowered into the ground. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the most dangerous places to be a ranger.