{"id":2646,"date":"2014-06-14T15:09:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T08:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2014-06-14T15:09:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T08:09:30","slug":"virunga-national-park-oil-hunt-in-drc-halted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/virunga-national-park-oil-hunt-in-drc-halted\/","title":{"rendered":"Virunga national Park oil hunt in DRC halted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hunt for oil is to be halted in Africa&#8217;s oldest national park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a UK-based oil firm has said.<\/p>\n<p>Virunga National Park is a Unesco World Heritage site and home to more than 200 endangered mountain gorillas.<\/p>\n<p>Soco International made the concession after the WWF filed a complaint that the company was violating good business practice guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The world conservation group has now agreed to drop its case against Soco.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement, Soco and the WWF said they looked forward &#8220;to working responsibly with the DR Congo and its people to ensure that future development benefits both people and the environment&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DRC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-27792031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News Central Africa <a title=\"DR Congo\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/\">DR Congo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hunt for oil is to be halted in Africa&#8217;s oldest national park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a UK-based oil firm has said. Virunga National Park is a Unesco World Heritage site and home to more than 200 endangered mountain gorillas. Soco International made the concession after the WWF filed a complaint that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[301,278],"tags":[258,256,4696,281,4691,450,279,756,257,759,758,254,755,754,757],"class_list":["post-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-central-africa","category-dr-congo","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central-africa","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-dr-congo","tag-dr-congo-news","tag-drc","tag-mountain-gorillas","tag-news","tag-oil-hunt-in-drc","tag-soco-international","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unesco-world-heritage-site","tag-virunga-national-park","tag-wwf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}