Park authorities have been assisting ranger families, but the conflict and economic instability leaves them vulnerable
Ivory and other wild contraband seized by authorities is being returned to the black market in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Differing interpretation of the Firearms Control Act resulted in the seizure of a shipment of billets bound for the DRC from Durban harbour last week
The mountain gorilla has been moved from the ‘critically endangered’ category to ‘endangered’
DRC, the continent’s beautiful and precarious heart, sits once again upon a ticking bomb.
The state must reaffirm that Virunga has universal value for all humanity, says the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).
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/ 17 February 2011
A South African working for a British oil company has been released unharmed after he was kidnapped in the volatile eastern DRC.