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5 Things to Know About Virunga | Explorer


the wrong go is Africa’s oldest and
largest National Park it’s an enormous
area 3,000 square miles of protected
space but perhaps most importantly it’s
home to most of the world’s critically
endangered mountain gorillas the wrong
go is a unesco world heritage site
that’s the same status as Yellowstone
National Park with a Great Barrier Reef
and that protection is supposed to mean
that it’s illegal to explore or exploit
any of the natural resources within its
boundaries and yet that protection
doesn’t mean very much if companies like
SoCo or governments can find a way to
undermine those principle to get around
those laws essentially Virunga is the
most dangerous place to be a park ranger
in the last 20 years 140 Park Rangers on
patrol have been killed lost their lives
in defense of nature the charcoal
industry is the singly most damaging
contributed to habitat loss in the
region in very clever ways that Berenger
alliance addressing this directly
supplying alternatives building in the
structure electrifying the region
through the creation of hydroelectric
dams if social outreach can have the
power to topple governments in our time
then perhaps our efforts can change
policies at home and abroad in places as
distant as the DRC in the Congo
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