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Democratic Republic of Congo: Battle for Virunga: The fight save Africa's oldest national park
2014-09-06 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: At 3.45pm on April 15 Emmanuel de Merode, the Belgian-born, British-educated head of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, left the city of Goma for the 90-minute drive north to the headquarters of Virunga in Rumangabo. The road was once paved, but two decades of constant warfare in this part of eastern Congo have taken their toll. Today it is a ribbon of rock and rutted mud, scarcely negotiable except in four-wheel-drive vehicles. De Merode was alone in a Land Rover marked...
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