Tags: Ethnic Group.
Iyaelima people are an ethnic group with a population of about 2500 that live in eight settlements in the southern part of the Salonga National Park (SNP) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.They belong to the Mongo group of Bantu peoples.Although they practice slash-and-burn agriculture and hunt for bushmeat they have little impact on the environment.The Iyaelima never kill bonobos an ape closely related to humans whose population is much higher in Iyaelima territory than elsewhere.
