Moral Controversies from Virunga Documentary Paper (Essay.
A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes and it is protected. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of 'wild nature' for posterity and as a symbol of national pride.
In 2013 we launched a successful international drive to stop UK oil company Soco from exploring for oil in Virunga National Park in central Africa. As a result, Soco committed to end its oil operations in the park and other UNESCO World Heritage Sites. But for Virunga National Park to be safe in the long term we need the government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to cancel all oil.
We support movements that are shaping and advocating for economic development models that foster vibrant local economies, guarantee human rights, and build dignified livelihoods for all. The Human Rights program challenges a prevailing development paradigm that purports to lift people out of poverty but instead, extracts wealth, harms communities, and devastates the environment.
Virunga, in the Democratic Republic Congo (DRC), is Africa’s oldest and most biodiverse national park. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is home to Mountain Gorillas, Grauers Gorillas, Chimpanzees, Okapi and Elephants, supporting a wealth of cultural diversity, while providing homes and livelihoods for thousands of people in the region. Yet Virunga’s inhabitants are under threat from.
Kaziranga National Park is an incredible story of conservation success. There were just a handful of Indian one-horned rhinoceros left when the park was set up a century ago in Assam, in India's.
Oct 21, 2014 - A small team of park rangers battle to protect UNESCO world heritage site of Virunga National Park from armed militia, poachers, and dark forces struggling to control Congo’s rich natural resources. See more ideas about Congo, Natural resources and National parks.
The vast National Parks like the Amazon National Park, (Brazil), Virunga National Park (Congo) and the Kruger National Park, (South Africa) are some of the best examples of expanded grazing area for the herbivores. In India, Rajaji National Park has an expanded grazing area for elephants and deers. The total area of Rajaji National Park is 1600 km.