By Malavika Vyawahare Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation could imperil the region’s rich wildlife. “We found ...

As a World Heritage Sites, boundary changes cannot be made by DRC alone, but must be agreed by UNESCO. Virunga National Park was designated World Heritage Site in recognition of its outstanding ...

Mountain gorillas live in just two isolated groups – one in the Virunga volcanoes – spanning the borders of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and one in Bwindi ...

These stories are rarely visible in international media reporting on the park, which generally focus on the wildlife and the rangers ... are currently many debates happening in eastern DRC about ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has gained infamy for ... the African country is home to the oldest national park on the continent: Virunga National Park. It's a UNESCO World Heritage ...

When the ranger studied the ragtag crew he was supervising, seven young men repairing a rugged road that leads to Virunga National Park ... expunging the park’s wildlife for personal consumption ...

British oil company Soco International PLC has gained the rights to explore for oil in an eastern DRC block, which includes part of Virunga, Africa’s oldest national park. The park is home to over ...

Gen Bruno Mandevu said the clash had occurred in the Virunga National Park, on Congolese territory - a claim Rwanda denied. He said the Congolese troops initially thought they were fighting one of ...

At the time of the payments, Soco was operating in Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic ... army "or that Maj Feruzi was the DRC army's military liaison officer assigned to Soco's ...

The Virunga National Park, taken from the rim of the crater of ... in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Thursday. The DRC government will auction 30 oil and gas blocks in the Cuvette ...

In October 2024, climate activists in the DRC won the suspension of a controversial oil and gas licence auction that threatened the Congo Basin rainforest and Virunga National Park, two carbon ...