No sooner do I internalize what is happening in the Virungas National Park in DRC from a well-done National Geographic article, and my boss's pronouncements, and there is an attack on conservationists working for World Wildlife Fund and park rangers working for the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN). Its really shocking that rebels control ecotourism, just a few miles from some of the best tourism outfits in Africa. I'm sure the security situation in the park will jump to the front of this summit next week. Unfortunately, it takes a few gorillas and rangers getting killed for people to notice...while millions have been killed since the Rwandan genocide was exported to the DRC. The gorilla park is where resource wars are everyday reality.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7497005.stm
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