SAVE VIRUNGA
Stop Oil Exploration in Africa's Oldest National Park
Virunga National Park is under threat and witnessing an increase in attacks and misinformation around its development projects in North Kivu. Everything started a few months ago with recurrent militia attacks in and around the construction site of its third Hydropower plant of 12,8 MW close to Lubero. Making it very difficult for the park… Read More
New Troubles at the Gates of Virunga, Op Ed piece collectively authored by Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group, Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and Howard Buffett, President, Howard G. Buffett Foundation. Oil exploration could be devastating to Africa’s most iconic national park — and its people. The British company SOCO International has… Read More
Rumangabo, DR Congo — After almost twenty years of armed conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Virunga National Park today released the details of a 10-year plan to re-invigorate the local economy and create tens of thousands of new jobs as a peace-building initiative in the conflict affected areas of eastern… Read More
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