Carlos Schuler and his wife Christine Deschriver ©private
“Life and Survival in Congo. Gorilla Conservation and Family Life in Wartime” is the autobiography of Carlos Schuler who found a second home in Eastern Congo. During three wars, the Swiss national held out there to protect the gorillas from extermination by poachers. Carlos Schuler also reports on the struggle for mineral resources. After the Rwanda war ended, he witnessed gunmen streaming across the nearby border and going unmolested.