by Save Virunga

Virunga New Year’s Resolution: We won’t Sacrifice Protected Areas and Sacred Sites to Extractive Industries and Human Greed.

When Save Virunga started more than 6 years ago our aim was simple: to give a voice to local communities who depend on the survival of Virunga National Park for their livelihoods and to protect Africa’s oldest National Park from oil extraction. We believed that Virunga should be a place where no oil extraction and pollution occurs, a… Read More

by Save Virunga

Why should we sacrifice Virunga if fossil fuels should not be extracted in the first place?

When Save Virunga started 5 years ago our aim was simple: to give a voice to local communities who depend on the survival of Virunga National Park for their livelihoods and to protect Africa’s oldest National Park from oil extraction. We believed that Virunga should be a place where no oil extraction and pollution occurs, a place… Read More