Unfortunately, the DRC's violence has affected this destination ... as a cause of extreme violence and insecurity. The Virunga National Park is particularly important in this respect, due to ...

Skip to content viewer section. After almost two decades of violent conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – during which time the Virunga National Park was focused mainly on ‘mere ...

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When the ranger studied the ragtag crew he was supervising, seven young men repairing a rugged road that leads to Virunga National Park, it did not take much to see what he had in common with them.

Last week, a hopeful new era began for the enormous park in the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with the official launch ... we have been making significant progress in Virunga and ...

A village near the boundary of Virunga National Park in the eastern DRC. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay. African leaders continue to advocate for talks between the DRC and Rwanda to help solve the ...

British oil company Soco International PLC has gained the rights to explore for oil in an eastern DRC block, which includes part of Virunga, Africa’s oldest national park. The park is home to over ...

(Read about Virunga's park warden, National Geographic Explorer Emmanuel ... appeared in 1976 around its namesake river in northern DRC, and over the past three years the country has battled ...

The DRC government will auction 30 oil and gas ... lie within Africa’s iconic first conservation area, the Virunga National Park, created in 1925 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, home to ...

In October 2024, climate activists in the DRC won the suspension of a controversial oil and gas licence auction that threatened the Congo Basin rainforest and Virunga National Park, two carbon ...