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The environmental toll of the M23 conflict in eastern DRC (Analysis)
Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. Image by Rick Quinn. Caught in the geopolitical crossfire, international conservation NGOs ...
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Inside the Fight to Save One of the World’s Most Dangerous Parks
Virunga is national property ... from a recent eruption. The park encompasses an extremely diverse landscape, including glaciers and savannas, as well as volcanoes. Photograph by Brent Stirton ...
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The Population of Endangered Mountain Gorillas Has Grown by 71% In a Decade
Mountain gorillas - an endangered species - survive in only two regions in the world: the Virunga Massif (a chain of volcanoes in East Africa) and Uganda's Bwindi ...
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Beyond Contesting Limits: Land, Access, and Resistance at the Virunga National Park
Volcanoes under siege: impact of a decade of armed conflict ... The transnationalization of nature conservation in conflict areas: the Virunga National Park as a ‘state within a state’ in the ...
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Meet the Vets Risking Their Lives to Treat Wild Gorillas
(Read about Virunga's park warden ... Ishema, an adult female, relaxes in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. Despite a quarter century of regional conflict, the mountain gorilla population ...
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Wildlife workers mourn deaths of Virunga National Park protectors
WWF is mourning the deaths of three Virunga National Park rangers and five Democratic Republic of Congo soldiers who were working with them last week, after a rocket propelled grenade attack on their ...
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EU reps speak out about Soco’s Virunga exploration
The European Union Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs and Belgium’s Minister of Development Cooperation Jean-Pascal Labille issued a joint declaration on the issue Friday after returning ...