An attack on a Park Ranger patrol in Congo's Virunga National Park has left 4 dead and 2 injured. The perpetrators? Rwandan militias linked to the 1994 genocide.
… Rwandan militia murder Congo 'gorilla guardian' The Ecologist | 13th January 2014 News Congo Africa Rwanda Gorillas An attack on a Park Ranger patrol in Congo's Virunga National Park has left 4 dead …
Technology companies should be honest with customers about the origin of the metals in their products, says NGO Global Witness
… Mobile phone metals fuelling Congo war The Ecologist | 17th February 2010 … Society Science And Technology Mobile Phones Congo Minerals drc picture.jpg Global Witness … mineral mining is fuelling war in eastern Congo Technology companies should be honest …
Congolese Police have cracked down on peaceful, legal protests to keep a UK oil company out of Virunga National Park, important for its 200 mountain gorillas.
… The Ecologist | 1st February 2014 News Congo Africa Natural World Oil Fossil Fuels virunga-farmer.png Congolese Police have cracked down on … ministers have arrived in Goma, eastern Congo from Kinshasa for a meeting about the …
Rangers have detected gorilla families in Virunga National Park for the first time since fighting broke out between M23 rebels and government forces earlier this year
… Congo’s rangers locate first mountain gorilla … The Ecologist | 7th August 2012 News Gorillas Congo Virunga Civil War Search Natural World … for the missing mountain gorilla families in Congo’s Virunga National Park, finding four of …
The Ecologist has apologised to SOCO International following an article we published based on a report by Global Witness about the company's operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
… operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On 10th September 2014 we published an article entitled 'Congo: Africa's oldest National Park under … National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo including suggestions that SOCO were …
In the month that the world's first Fair Trade gold is launched, Human Rights Watch release a film reporting on alleged abuses at Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea
… And Economics Natural Resources Video congomining.jpg In the month that the world's … neighbours need to follow her lead... NEWS Congo massacre case prompts call for crackdown … of 70 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo INVESTIGATION A green army Natural …
The UK Government is to examine the activities of London-based oil company Soco over alleged violations of environmental protections and human rights abuses in Africa's first National Park, home to 200 Mountain gorillas.
… Ecologist | 17th February 2014 News Africa Congo Natural World Oil Fossil Fuels UK … National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). WWF's case has exposed "material …
Following the shooting of Virunga's chief warden last week, WWF is calling on UK oil company Soco International PLC to pull out of the Park and respond to allegations made in a new documentary premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival.
… | 23rd April 2014 News Natural World Africa Congo DRC Oil Fossil Fuels UK … chief warden of Democratic Republic of the Congo's Virunga National Park, Emmanuel de … the park" , said Abraham. "WWF believes the Congolese citizens that depend on Virunga …
Government says funding will support pilot projects to help determine longer term support to fight deforestation
… countries such as the Democractic Republic of Congo, which are often unable to track or … in countries like Indonesia, Brazil and Congo needs to be halted by 2015 at the latest …
Treasury accused of writing a 'blank cheque' with taxpayers' money for bank to make environmentally-damaging investments
… Canada. Uganda/ Democratic Republic of Congo - oil exploration In March 2009, RBS was … on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Tullow also holds oil exploration …
At the New York Climate Summit, an international agreement has been struck to halve, then end deforestation around the world. It has the support of major forest countries, multinational corporations, forest campaign groups and indigenous peoples.
… Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guyana, Indonesia, Kenya, … Meanwhile the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Guatemala, Uganda and …
Campaign groups on the verge of leaving international diamond trade body because of failures to prevent military takeovers of mines, worker deaths and systematic smuggling
… necessary. NEWS Mobile phone metals fuelling Congo war Technology companies should be …
The world's growing waste mountain of mobile phones, computers and other electronic goods is being illegally recycled in unregulated and primitive conditions in China and causing significant toxic pollution
… in India NEWS Mobile phone metals fuelling Congo war Technology companies should be …
A UNESCO mission to Virunga, home to 200 Mountain gorillas, has demanded an end to oil exploitation in the National Park, which it describes as 'extremely threatened'. London-based Soco International began seismic testing in the Park last month.
… mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) property, the UN Educational, …
A new report reveals huge declines in the UK's migratory birds that winter deep in Africa's rainforests. Shorter distance migrants are performing much better, with some recording big population increases.
… 43%. Species wintering furthest south in the Congo Basin (represented here by cuckoos, …
The over-hunting of wildlife in the Amazon has an unexpected knock-on effect: the reduced seed dispersal reduces the forest's capacity to store carbon in its biomass, increasing emissions from apparently 'intact' rainforest areas.
… in the rainforests of West Africa and the the Congo Basin may be causing the forests long …
A new 'State of the World's Rivers' database shows how the world's rivers have been impoverished by dams and their ecosystems devastated - and provides a valuable resource to help save river basins that remain in good health.
… include the Tocantins, the Irrawaddy, the Congo, and the Zambezi. Zachary Hurwitz, the …
Revenues obtained from the often illegal extraction and supply of commodities such as timber and diamonds are directly bankrolling corrupt regimes and armed insurgency groups, and fund the purchase of weapons and other contraband goods that perpetuate cycles of conflict.
… Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), among others. Most recently it …
The rainforest habitat of chimpanzees and other great apes is being destroyed by the expansion of palm oil projects in central Africa, according to new evidence from Greenpeace.
… conflict and environmental damage." The Congo Basin is the world's second largest …
The trial of the ex-Liberian President - accused of purchasing arms with funds from the illegal timber and diamond trade - could lead to a wave of prosecutions using the 'pillage' theory
… on. Then in the DRC [Democratic Republic of Congo] in particular, people were using the …