Virunga 2021: Renewing our Fractured Relationship with the Planet

The real cure for COVID is renewing our fractured relationship with the planet JAMES MASKALYK AND DAVE COURCHENE If humanity is to endure, the coming months must hold healing, not just of populations across the globe from the coronavirus, but of the Earth herself. As is true of many zoonoses (diseases that jumped from animals),… Read More

Virunga and Our Planet Call for the Best of Us, Now

“We are capable of bold, redemptive, and generous action, and such action is required of us now.” Excerpt  from  On E.B. White’s Urgent Calls for Environmental Justice Megan Mayhew Bergman Revisits The New Yorker’s “Anonymous” Editorials …. We believe we are superior to other tribes and nations, but also other life forms. Human exceptionalism is… Read More

Space for Nature and Virunga: How much of the planet should we leave for other forms of life?

Space for Nature, by Jonathan Baillie and Ya-Ping Zhang Editorial from Science published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. How much of the planet should we leave for other forms of life? This is a question humanity must now grapple with. The global human population is 7.6 billion and anticipated to increase… Read More

1.000 Reasons Save Virunga and Our Lovely Blue Planet from Climate Change Deniers

Today we don’t only fight for the survival of Virunga: we fight for our planet, for our children and future generations.  We are against climate change denial, we believe in a fair and just transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, for the benefit of nature and  communities across the world.  We Can Change The World!  Our lovely… Read More