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In Troubled African National Park, New Battle Over Oil Exploration

2014-05-01 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale 360: Africas oldest national park will soon be echoing with the sounds of geologists conducting seismic surveys to establish the size of the parks oil reserves -- in direct defiance of requests from the United Nations, conservation groups, and the British government. The survey in Virunga National Park, a World Heritage Site in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is set to begin any day now. This comes just two weeks after the parks chief warden, Belgian prince and conservationist...

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