jeudi 3 octobre 2013

DRC natural resources press review of Thursday, October 3, 2013

The Avenir newspaper speaks smuggling of two young couples gorillas in North Kivu and indicates that civil society Kasugho (eastern DRC) accuses an official of the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN ) illegally tampering with two young couples gorilla housed in the sanctuary of the Centre for rehabilitation, education and conservation of gorillas.

The Congolese News Agency (ACP) informs that the curator of the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN), the province of Bandundu, Freddy Kayanda, said that since the beginning of 2013, about five hundred parrots are caught illegally in the territory of Idiofa (Bandundu) and sent to Kinshasa to be sold or exportés.Il accused some leaders of the villages surrounding Loange rivers Luandji, high production of these bird species of protected be involved in the illegal logging. Despite his willingness to please stop this illegal use of this protected species, ICCN has encountered a lack of logistics. "We have set watchmen to monitor parrots but they are not well equipped to do their job well," said the curator.

Returning to the interview that the German ambassador gave the local press on Tuesday, October 1, Radio Okapi says that the German ambassador in the DRC urged the Congolese government to protect the Protected Areas countries. He estimated that the DRC did not need oil exploration in these areas to increase its income, referring to the controversy over oil exploration in Virunga Park.

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