KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The Congo government authorizes the British firm SOCO to explore for oil in Virunga National Park in North Kivu province. Minister of Hydrocarbons Crispin Atama Tabe told The ...

Six rangers at a prominent national park in Congo are dead and another was badly injured in a horrific ambush carried out Sunday by “armed assailants,” park officials announced. Authorities did not ...

(Reuters) -At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in eastern Congo's Virunga National Park and have been spotted floating along a major river that feeds one ...

KINSHASA, Congo-Kinshasa — Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with a ranger at Congo's Virunga National Park, has died at 14 after a long illness, the park said. “It is with ...

Conservation, like many other areas of our professional, political and social life, is currently adapting to new trends in information and communication technologies. Despite the colossal digital ...

A gorilla made famous after her selfie with a ranger at Congo's Virunga National Park has died. Park officials said Ndakasi died on Sept. 26 at the age of 14 "following a prolonged illness in which ...

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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — One wildlife park guard was killed and two British tourists and their driver were abducted in Virunga National Park in Congo, a park spokesman said Friday. Their vehicle was ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel did not expect a civil war to break out when he arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2012 to profile Virunga National Park's ...