Virunga oil exploration warning
Africa’s oldest national park, which could be worth a billion dollars a year if developed sustainably, is under threat from oil exploration, campaigners have warned.
Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), made up of lakes, savannah, forests, volcanoes and home to the critically endangered mountain gorilla, could be worth £700 million annually, a report by charity WWF said …
Express.co.uk – Published: Thu, August 1, 2013
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Captain Paul Watson: An Open Letter to President Laura Chinchilla of Costa Rica
From Captain Paul Watson
Dear President Chinchilla,
I can understand you agreeing to throw me under the bus as a political favor to your friends in the Japanese government.
After all, I’m just a gringo. You don’t owe me a thing and you picked up a few hundred million yen for Costa Rica for your troubles. I’m sure there were no kick–backs, because after all, that is unheard of in Costa Rica politics, well at least since the days of President Pacheco or so your Minister for Foreign Affairs has assured me. You probably picked up a few votes from the shark finners and poachers. Nothing wrong with that. Some would call it good politics …
Inside Costa Rica – Published: Thu, August 1, 2013
insidecostarica.com/2013/08/01…
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