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The DRC Virunga National Park threatened by clashes

  1. Posted on Saturday 8 November 2008 - 10:41
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    The international community should have a light on the situation of Virunga National Park in DRC, a World Heritage site by Unesco transformed into operational zone of warring armed groups: It is the wish expressed on Thursday by the Chief Director Site of the Virunga park as part of the commemoration at the global level of the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict.
    For Emmanuel De Merode, two stations in the Virunga National Park, Kabaraza and Mikeno, theaters of recent clashes between the FARDC and CNDP are emptied of all the guards parks since last week.

    The Virunga National Park, is affected by the intense conflict for over 12 years, said the provincial director of the Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature, ICCN North Kivu. Emmanuel De Merode added that this situation has further worsened the last two weeks: "There are more places that have been seriously affected by the conflict that the Virunga National Park, but this is not new . The last two weeks have been among the most difficult teams ICCN have known of their careers. "

    And the World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF, for its part, accuses already looting of its equipment while working at Kiwanja clashes of the past week. Bruno Hugel, Project Manager of WWF Eco Makala in Goma, added that the gunmen involved in recent conflicts have no respect for the natural resources of the Virunga park: "These rebel groups, the Congolese army also use the manufacturing of Makala and all related businesses as a means of generating income at the expense of forests in the park. "

    Emmanuel De Merode recommends that the international community to increase more vigilance on the current situation of Virunga park became a World Heritage site in great peril.The DRC Virunga National Park threatened by clashes

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