The Misotshi–Kabogo ecosystem is found in the The livelihood and natural resource management eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in the strategies that are adopted throughout the lower portion of the Albertine Rift, one of the migration process can have a range of impacts most species-rich regions of Africa (Plumptre et on ecosystems and the livelihoods they support. [...] Section 4 presents the migration context, The project developed a methodology for describing the history and extent of the migration better understanding the drivers and impacts into Misotshi–Kabogo, and the profile of most of migration on critical natural resources, migrants coming to the area. [...] MIGRATION AND CONSERVATION IN THE MISOTSHI–KABOGO ECOSYSTEM 1 2.0 THE MISOTSHI–KABOGO ECOSYSTEM The Misotshi–Kabogo ecosystem (see Figure 1) more threatened and endemic vertebrates than is found in the eastern Democratic Republic of anywhere else on the continent (Ayebare, 2013; Congo. [...] According to the 2014 Human Development Report of the United Nations Development The area around the Misotshi–Kabogo ecosystem Programme (UNDP), DRC is categorized as was for many years the site of protracted civil a country of Low Human Development: of the conflict. [...] MIGRATION AND CONSERVATION IN THE MISOTSHI–KABOGO ECOSYSTEM 5 The process for establishing formal protection proposed protected area would be called for the ecosystem has been ongoing for Ngamikka National Park (taken from the local approximately eight years, and continues to have names Ngandja, Misotshi, Kabili, Kabobo), the support of the local community (Kujirakwinja and it would include a core