News Headline

Inside the Fight to Save One of the World’s Most Dangerous Parks

Source
National Geographic

Publication Date
2016-06-16

When the ranger studied the ragtag crew he was supervising, seven young men repairing a rugged road that leads to Virunga National Park, it did not take much to see what he had in common with them. They were all born and raised in or around the park on the eastern edge of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. None of them were rich. None of them would ever be rich. All of them had seen loved ones fall by the capricious machete stroke of a war with murky logic and no foreseeable end.

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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/07/virunga-national-parks-africa-congo-rangers/