Like elsewhere in Africa, charcoal has become a big problem for Virunga National Park. Illegal production in the park has been high in recent years as producers try to meet the demand from the ...

In a milestone for conservation around Virunga National Park in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a large quantity of sustainable charcoal is now available on the market in Goma, the most ...

On the southwestern flank of Virunga, a protected national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, there was once a thick rainforest. Today it looks like the surface of the moon, barren and smoking.

WWF wishes Emmanuel de Merode a swift recovery from gunshot wounds suffered in a DRC attack. The chief warden of Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Virunga National Park, Emmanuel de Merode, has been ...

After losing her leg in a 2014 bombing in eastern Congo, Wivine Kavira Mukata transformed her trauma into purpose by becoming an ortho-prosthetist, helping fellow amputees regain mobility and dignity.

Filmmaker Petna Ndaliko still remembers sneaking into the movie theater as a boy in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But in the wake of turbulence and civil war, the cinema in the city of Goma has ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Belgian director of Africa's oldest national park, a reserve in conflict-ridden eastern Congo, has been shot and seriously wounded but his condition is improving, park ...

2001 Report on a mission led by the Director of the World Heritage Centre to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 24 ... 2000 Report on intermediary mission to the DRC Conservation issues presented ...

A national park in Congo best known for its endangered mountain gorillas is now inviting tourists to go on overnight treks to see a volcano spurting fountains of lava nearly 1,000 feet into the air.