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Oil overthrow: Soco to suspend operations in Virunga National Park

2014-06-11 23:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: In a surprise announcement, British oil company Soco International has said it will suspend exploratory operations in Virunga National Park, home to half the world's Critically Endangered mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) as well as thousands of other species. The announcement follows several years of campaigning from conservation groups led by WWF, which argued that drilling could lead to severe environmental destruction in the UNESCO World Heritage site located in the eastern Democratic...

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