The travel from 26 to 28 August 2013 in Kinshasa , the High Level Group chaired by former South African President , Thabo Mbeki , to leave the DRC leakage of illicit capital unjustified resulted in troubling revelations about the shortfall that registers the Congolese government in the mining sector . According to the Potentiel newspaper , given the extent of the damage , the government has appealed for help to stop the illicit capital flight . The newspaper says that many revelations about the domination of the export of illicit capital of the DRC presented to the jury by a team led by the Minister of Finance , Patrice Kitebi KIBOL have mentioned only 15% of the country ores which are reported in the customs and tax authorities by the companies concerned. This means that the State would experience a potential loss of 85 % of revenues.
Despite this, four mining companies operating in the province of Katanga , were acclaimed by the provincial government because they have excelled in meeting environmental standards of mining in the DRC, the biweekly Maximum reports quoting the MMR, Ruashi Mining, CMSK and Gécamines.
On another note, Radio Okapi reports that parrots are threatened with extinction in the province of Maniema . To protect this species and facilitate its reproduction , the provincial Minister of the Environment Maniema banned its capture until January 2014 . Several other rare species of wildlife are often Congolese victims of poaching , including white rhino, elephant, mountain gorilla Okapi . According to the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation , this professional poaching is particularly noticeable in the Virunga National Park , Salonga , Garamba , the Okapi Wildlife Reserve (TER ) and the National Park Upemba .
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