By Roxanne Reid
The Virunga National Park in the DRC is under threat from oil exploration. In a campaign tagged #SOSVirunga, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has made a video showcasing why allowing this would be a huge mistake.
The Virunga National Park in the DRC is under threat from oil exploration. In a campaign tagged #SOSVirunga, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has made a video showcasing why allowing this would be a huge mistake.
The video starts with a punch: 'Virunga: Africa's most beautiful and diverse ... oil field?' It goes on to hint at the wonders that could be lost if oil exploration were to go ahead - the forests, monkeys, gorillas, birds and other wildlife, the people surviving by fishing, and so forth.
How can you help to draw the line so that Virunga can live forever? Watch the video and then add your name to the petition.
[Update June 2014: More than 765,000 people from around the world signed WWF's petition to protect the park from oil exploration, and helped achieve a great result. In June 2014 UK oil company Soco announced it would stop its operations.]
Copyright © Roxanne Reid - No words or photographs on this site may be used without permission from roxannereid.co.za. I don't hold copyright of the Youtube video.
How can you help to draw the line so that Virunga can live forever? Watch the video and then add your name to the petition.
[Update June 2014: More than 765,000 people from around the world signed WWF's petition to protect the park from oil exploration, and helped achieve a great result. In June 2014 UK oil company Soco announced it would stop its operations.]
Copyright © Roxanne Reid - No words or photographs on this site may be used without permission from roxannereid.co.za. I don't hold copyright of the Youtube video.
