JEN GUYTON  www.jenguyton.com  |  @jenguyton   A girl stands by as her family's farm burns in preparation for crop planting on Mount Gorongosa, which is a part of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. The Mountain boasts the southernmost fragment of ancient Congolese rainforest, and is home to a number of endemic species. Fire, which is overwhelmingly man-made here, is a major threat to this ecosystem, which naturally has very low fire frequency. The mountain has been a hotspot of civil conflict since the Mozambican Civil War that raged from 1975-1992. For the last decade or so, it has been the home base of RENAMO, the rebel army. Meanwhile, there are 10,000 people subsistence farming on the mountain's poor rainforest soil. To make that living, they must cut a new patch of forest each year. In 2013, less than half of the forest remained; since then, the clearing has accelerated as people are forced into the forest from the open lowlands when armed conflict between RENAMO and government forces flares.
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