Since the recent increase in FDLR and Mai Mai rebel activity in the central sector, and the takeover of the gorilla sector by M23, we have also seen a renewed increase in the last six months in illegal charcoal production in our volcanoes sector, destroying the park’s forests. Several weeks ago we began an operation
It is with a heavy heart that I must once again report that Virunga National Park has lost two more of its own. Early this morning in Mwiga Bay, an area just west of the fishing settlement of Vitshumbi on Lake Edward, a ranger patrol was ambushed by Mai-Mai PARECO rebels. Two park staff plus
