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    Le droit à la terre des peuples autochtones pygmées à l’épreuve de la création des aires protégées en RD. Congo : Cas de la Réserve naturelle d’Itombwe
    (UB, FSPJ, 2025-01) Ntagalanda Bulashe, Jeremy-Walter; Sous la direction du : Directeur : Dr. Pascal Rwankara
    The right to land is one of the rights recognized to indigenous Pygmy peoples in DR Congo. Indeed, this right which, initially, was a right recognized on the basis of habits and customs and soberly relayed by certain laws in DR Congo, was officially recognized by Law n° 22/030 of July 15, 2022 relating to protection and promotion of the rights of indigenous Pygmy peoples in DR Congo. This law clearly indicates that these indigenous Pygmy people have the right to land and natural resources according to the forms of the chapter devoted to this point in the said law. Curiously, it is observed that this law recognizes, on a legal level, a right for which the indigenous Pygmy peoples have been fighting for several years because, in many cases, their lands, resources and/or forests have been established as areas protected. The cases are legion across the extent of the national territory of the DR Congo and, for example, the Kahuzi-Biega National Park and the Itombwe Nature Reserve – the latter being the case study of this research – constitute emblematic figures who demonstrate how the indigenous Pygmy peoples of Itombwe, in the east of the DR Congo, no longer have their land. Faced with this dehumanizing situation, this study postulates for the effectiveness of the recognition of the right to land for the indigenous peoples of Itombwe while encouraging them to favor, all the same, the conservation of nature according to their ways relating to traditional knowledge