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The RFO: Zoning as an Approach to Natural Resource Management |
 | | The RFO is home to major populations of several species of large mammal, including okapis, elephants, antelopes, carnivores, wart hogs, rodents, and over a dozen species of primate. |
 | | The RFO was created in May 1992 for the principal purpose of conserving and sustaining the RFO region’s biological diversity, ecological systems, and productivity, as well as the ecosystems of the Ituri Forest itself, and to ensure the sustainability of a reservoir of natural resources susceptible of wise use by the local people (Stephenson, 1955). |
 | | The Ituri Forest is, and always was, considered as a region open to the immigration of surplus population from the overpopulated regions of North Kivu, the Uele and the Ituri. |
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