War and Collapsed Ecosystems

War effects everything. People, economy, job markets, and yes, ecosystems. An article in The Atlantic by Delphine Schrank called "Under the Weight of Congo's Civil War, An Ecosystem Collpses" discusses the incessant war in the Congo and how it's just leaving nothing behind. She says "...the internecine wars of eastern Congo have acquired a haunting familiarity: rebels plunder the country’s natural riches, and the looting feeds a cycle of impoverishment, corruption, and violence. But in Vitshumbi, more-elemental changes have been complicating the pattern. The hippopotamuses started falling first. Then the elephants. And now the fish are disappearing, too. An ecosystem seems to be unraveling."