I started working for the park in 1996 – initially I was clearing paths in the forest. But before that I was simply working the fields as I came from a poor family and I could not find the means to study. I even ended up doing some poaching in the park. But it is not a comfortable life when you live in an illegal way. You always feel unsafe, and actually guilty. So in the mid-1990s my father was doing ... Read the full story »