Statement: Tragic Sacrifice of 6 Rangers Killed in the Congo’s Virunga National Park
Monday, 18 January 2021
The Jane Goodall Institute Australia (JGIA) expresses its heartfelt condolences to the families, friends, and colleagues of six rangers killed (and the seventh injured) while on patrol in Virunga National Park (Democratic Republic of Congo) on the morning of Sunday 10 January 2021. The second attack in less than a year, 17 rangers were also
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The Jane Goodall Institute Australia strongly condemns the killing of 17 people, including 12 rangers, in Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Thursday, 30 April 2020
The Chief Executive Officer of The Jane Goodall Institute Australia (JGIA), James Forbes, joins fellow conservationists worldwide to condemn the vile killing of 13 employees of the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN), plus four civilians, near the headquarters of the Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo last week. “As with Tchimpounga
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