Crocodile Hunting: A Waning Practice
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The legends of Crocodile hunters stay with Banunu fishermen as the practice is declining
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The Libinza tribe, for generations, have been involved in crocodile hunting along the Congo river
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The tribe is known for its extraordinary fishing and hunting superstitions
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The Banunu fishermen often inherit spears and ancestral totems believed to have spiritual significance
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They know how to communicate with crocodiles, attracting them by imitating their cries
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There was a time when crocodile hunting was lucrative, back when the Congo was known as Zaire between 1971 and 1997
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President Mobutu Sese Seko was in power and crocodile skin was sought after for its supposed miraculous qualities
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Nowadays, the selling of wild crocodile skin "is forbidden" to preserve the species, say fishermen
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