Borderline decisions

• Autores: Curtis Abraham
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3017, 2015, pág. 26
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In March, the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced that it was in talks with UNESCO about redrawing the borders of Virunga National Park to allow exploration, after the discovery of oil and gas there. The park is a World Heritage Site, home to hundreds of rare mountain gorillas and other endangered wildlife. Here, Abraham argues that the best option for Virunga is not to redraw borders, but to cancel all oil permits overlapping the park and to support local initiatives that are environmentally and culturally sound and that could help defuse conflict in the region