Congo-Kinshasa: Critics of DRC Oil Plans Threatened - HRW

A rights group said park rangers and environmental activists in the DRC are receiving death threats, after criticizing plans for oil exploration. Human Rights Watch said a British firm plans to explore for petroleum near and within Virunga National Park.

The park has been declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations, which says such sites "belong to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they're located." Virunga also is home to many of the last mountain gorillas.

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