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Virunga National Park

Organizations and institutions like Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature or ICCN and the Congolese National Park Authorities provide manpower and logistics to ensure that the park is consistently protected from aspects that can harm the animals and plant life inside . The interest of groups , like the European Commission , also provides the necessary influence and clout in the global community so that the park is better protected from acts of exploitation and the killing and destruction of animal and plant life is minimized as much as possible . Preservation of animal

life also necessitated the creation and implementation of new action plan , like the creation of environmental movement corridors , for example (Hudson , 1991 ,

. 123 "Virunga National Park in Zaire , for example , perhaps the first national park in Africa , is complemented by movement corridors , as are several other East African parks (Hudson , 1991 ,

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The efforts that have been made to further this preservation

Preservation efforts undertaken inside the Virunga National Park include the imposition of stricter rules and laws regarding poaching and the unnecessary killing of animal and plant life and the mobilization of manpower and resources which are necessary to the continued monitoring of the preservation efforts of the Virunga National Park . Perhaps the most important effort to further the preservation is about the continued focus of the action plan of involved authorities to protect the park in the long term basis . Results of research efforts involving Virunga National Park and its animal and plant life in the recent years also contributed to the effort for further preservation by bringing the state and condition of the Virunga National Park to the attention and consciousness of more people in the hope to generate more support and awareness and to use this growing awareness on the problems of...

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