Waar kijk je Virunga?
Virunga (2014) staat nu in Nederland op Netflix.
Virunga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Africa’s oldest national park, a UNESCO world heritage site, and a contested ground among insurgencies seeking to topple the government that see untold profits in the land. Among this ongoing power struggle, Virunga also happens to be the last natural habitat for the critically endangered mountain gorilla. The only thing standing in the way of the forces closing in…
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Virunga" is a gripping documentary that interweaves conservation, war, and human resilience into an urgent portrait of endangered ecosystems, its greatest strength being the way it makes environmental activism feel visceral and immediate.
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