“When you commit, you do it until the end”: facing poachers, the fierce fight of Chad’s forest guards

MAJOR REPORT - In 1956, Romain Gary won the Goncourt prize for Les Racines du ciel, a novel manifesto for the defense of elephants, set in Chad. Seventy years later, confronted with a less romantic and more violent reality, the employees of the Zakouma National Park sometimes pay with their lives for their mission of protecting pachyderms, but also giraffes and buffaloes.