Merline Touko Tchoko, Cameroonian communications expert and Synchronicity Earth consultant, spent eight days alongside our Congo Basin Programme partners taking part in the first ‘Mini-Congress’ for nature in Kinshasa, timed to coincide with the IUCN World Conservation Congress being held in Marseille. Through the eyes and voices of our partners, Merline gives us her insight into a joyous and unique occasion which brought these grassroots Congolese organisations together to share ideas and practice, speak with one voice and take their place at the table with the wider world conservation family.
