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Congolese Activists Honored Fighting Oil Exploration Virunga National Park

2015-10-30 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: Virunga National Park, home to roughly a quarter of the world's remaining 880 mountain gorillas, was featured in Dian Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist. This week, the Alexander Soros Foundation gave its annual Extraordinary Achievement in Environmental and Human Rights award to two activists from the Democratic Republic of Congo who have resisted the efforts of SOCO International, a U.K.-based oil company, to prospect for oil from Virunga National Park. The park, which is classified as a World Heritage...

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