There is no nationally protected area in the world quite like Virunga, in ways both blessed and cursed. Its approximately two million acres include a web of glacier-fed rivers, one of Africa’s ...

Have you ever wondered what it must be like to pack up your life for a year, do an overland trip throughout Africa, and live in Virunga National Park? How about what it must feel like to get stuck in ...

the greater Virunga landscape covers an area of 13,200 km2 of some of the most diverse habitats in Africa. The landscape is home to Queen Elizabeth, Rwenzori, Semuliki, Bwindi Impenetrable and ...

Virunga National Park has become the battleground in a new conflict, as conservationsists fight off the advances of rebel militias, poachers and a powerful oil company...For several years de Merode ...

Gen Bruno Mandevu said the clash had occurred in the Virunga National Park ... Rwanda twice invaded its much-larger neighbour in the 1990s. Africa Live: More on this and other stories What ...

Virunga National Park is Africa's first National Park ... However there are now plans to explore and drill for oil throughout much of the park. Company maps seen indicate SOCO, a UK-listed company ...

Virunga National Park, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is Africa’s oldest protected space and a testament to the biodiversity and natural beauty of the continent. But the park has faced ...

In defiance of local protests and international opposition, Soco says seismic tests will start Saturday in Virunga National Park ... We urge investors to reject exploration in Africa’s oldest and most ...