Emmanuel de Merode, director of Virunga National Park: “If Conservation Creates Hardships, It Won’t Work”
via news.mongabay.com
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SALONGA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of the Congo — For over two decades, Emmanuel de Merode has worked at the intersection of conservation, conflict, and development in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. As director of Virunga National Park, he has overseen one of Africa’s most ambitious—and controversial—conservation experiments: protecting biodiversity by improving the […]