On the morning of May 11, Rachel Masika Baraka, a park ranger, was setting out on a normal day at work in Virunga National Park, the oldest, largest and most biologically diverse park in the ...
A group of about 580 savanna elephants recently returned to Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after crossing over from Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. The ...
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WWF UK recently celebrated its success in driving SOCO International, a UK-based oil and gas company, out of the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Their website proudly ...
“Any oil exploitation inside the property would seriously affect its integrity,” UNESCO said. 19 May 2014 – The United Nations agency that oversees World Heritage Sites has issued an urgent appeal for ...
In the DRC’s Virunga National Park, rangers and wildlife are caught in the crosshairs of a brutal civil conflict. Forest monitoring platform Global Forest Watch detected more than 1,100 hectares ...
April 1996 - March 2006 - December 2010: World Heritage Centre Reactive Monitoring missions; August 2007: joint World Heritage Centre/IUCN Reinforced Monitoring mission; March 2014: joint World ...
“Any oil exploitation inside the property would seriously affect its integrity,” UNESCO said. 19 May 2014 – The United Nations agency that oversees World Heritage Sites has issued an urgent appeal for ...