Pot-growing rebels in Virunga National Park clashing with rangers.
Stefan Lovgren
for National Geographic News
The battle over the war-ravaged Virunga National Park, home to some of the world's last wild mountain gorillas, is heating up. In early April a ranger in the park, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was shot to death by militias—the eighth ranger to have been killed in the past three months. And rebels who have been fueling the illegal charcoal business, which destroys critical gorilla habitat, now appear to have turned to an additional criminal activity: growing marijuana...[continued]
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