WWF is mourning the deaths of three Virunga National Park rangers and five Democratic Republic of Congo soldiers who were working with them last week, after a rocket propelled grenade attack on their ...

The Virunga National Park is particularly important in this ... Another militia group, Mai-Mai, is said to be responsible for an attack that killed six park rangers in 2021 and two in 2023.

Wengamulay says investigations into the attack have begun ... It did not give details. Virunga national park runs along the border with Uganda and Rwanda, and is a Unesco world heritage site.

Virunga is national property, but the government in Kinshasa contributes only five percent of the park’s eight-million ... was not considered safe from attack. Three days before that, in the ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. After almost two decades of violent conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – during which time the Virunga National ...

Virunga National Park rangers. Rangers play a key role in safeguarding protected areas, one of the key conservation actions included in the meta-analysis. (Photo by Bobby Neptune) Disclaimer ...