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Congo's rare mountain gorillas could become victims of oil exploration

2013-08-01 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The Virunga national park, home to rare mountain gorillas but targeted for oil exploration by a British company, could earn strife-torn DR Congo $400m (263m) a year from tourism, hydropower and carbon credits, a WWF report published on Thursday concludes. But if the Unesco world heritage site that straddles the equator is exploited for oil, as the Congolese government and exploration firm Soco International are hoping, it could lead to devastating pollution and permanent conflict in an already...

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