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Virunga Volcanoes Transboundary Conservation Area
Virunga may refer to: * Virunga Mountains, a chain of volcanoes in East Africa * Virunga National Park, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ** Virunga Foundation The Virunga Foundation is a non-governmental organisation working in the field of nature conservation. Registered in London and funded by the European Union, it is focused on protecting the wildlife in Virunga National Park in partnership with the ..., nature conservation body, mainly in the Virunga National Park * DC Virunga, a Congolese football club based in Goma * Stade de Virunga, a multi-use stadium in Goma * ''Virunga'' (film), a 2014 documentary * ''Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey'', Canadian title of the 1987 book '' Woman in the Mists'' by Farley Mowat {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virunga National Park
, iucn_category = II , iucn_ref = , location = Democratic Republic of the Congo , map = Democratic Republic of the Congo , relief = 1 , coordinates = , area = , established = , nearest_city = Goma , photo =Virunga National Park-107997.jpg , photo_caption = , governing_body = Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature , website = , administrator =Emmanuel de Merode , embedded1 = , embedded2 = , visitation_num = , visitation_year = Virunga National Park is a national park in the Albertine Rift Valley in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was created in 1925. In elevation, it ranges from in the Semliki River valley to in the Rwenzori Mountains. From north to south it extends approximately , largely along the international borders with Uganda and Rwanda in the east. It covers an area of . Two active volcanoes are located in the park, Mount Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira. They have significantly shaped the national park's dive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virunga Foundation
The Virunga Foundation is a non-governmental organisation working in the field of nature conservation. Registered in London and funded by the European Union, it is focused on protecting the wildlife in Virunga National Park in partnership with the Democratic Republic of Congo's ICNN. Its name between 2005 and 2014 was African Conservation Fund. International Gorilla Conservation Programme In 2017, the Virunga Foundation started a conservation project that targets the mountain gorilla (''Gorilla beringei beringei''), in which the Volcanoes National Park also participated. Controversy The Virunga Foundation and Virunga National Park have faced criticism that their conservation efforts in the region have led to the "militarization of conservation" and further violence and dispossession faced by local Indigenous peoples. Communities, such as the Mbuti, which previously relied on the lands included in the park for food and shelter have been forced out, or risk being arrested or kill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DC Virunga
Daring Club Virunga is a Congolese football club based in Goma, North Kivu province and currently playing in the Linafoot Ligue 2, the second level of the Congolese football. History ''DC Virunga'' was founded in 1964. Ground The club plays its home games at 10,000 capacity Stade de l'Unité in Goma. Honours Coupe du Congo * ''Runner-up (1):'' 2008 Nord-Kivu Provincial League (LIFNOKI) North Kivu (french: link=no, Nord-Kivu) is a province bordering Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its capital is Goma. North Kivu borders the provinces of Ituri to the north, Tshopo to the northwest, Maniema to the so ... * Winners (3): 2006, 2008, 2010 References External linksClub profile- ''Soccerway.com'' Football clubs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Goma Sports clubs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo {{DRCongo-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade De Virunga
Stade (), officially the Hanseatic City of Stade (german: Hansestadt Stade, nds, Hansestadt Stood) is a city in Lower Saxony in northern Germany. First mentioned in records in 934, it is the seat of the district () which bears its name. It is located roughly to the west of Hamburg and belongs to that city's wider metropolitan region. Within the area of the city are the urban districts of Bützfleth, Hagen, Haddorf and Wiepenkathen, each of which have a council () of their own with some autonomous decision-making rights. Stade is located in the lower regions of the river Elbe. It is also on the German Timber-Frame Road. History The first human settlers came to the Stade area in 30,000 BC. Since 1180 Stade belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. In early 1208 King Valdemar II of Denmark and his troops conquered Stade. In August Valdemar II's cousin being in enmity with the king, the then Prince-Archbishop Valdemar reconquered the city only to lose it soon aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virunga (film)
''Virunga'' is a 2014 British documentary film directed by Orlando von Einsiedel. It focuses on the conservation work of park rangers within the Congo's Virunga National Park during the rise of the violent M23 Rebellion in 2012 and investigates the activity of the British oil company Soco International within the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Soco International ended up officially exploring oil opportunities in Virunga in April 2014. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on 17 April 2014. After airing on Netflix, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Synopsis The documentary tells the story of four characters fighting to protect Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, home to the world's last mountain gorillas, from war, poaching, and the threat of oil exploration. Following gorilla caregiver André Bauma, central sector warden Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo, chief warden Emmanuel de Merode, and the French investigative journalis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
