{"id":14216,"date":"2021-08-12T15:31:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T15:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/?p=14216"},"modified":"2021-12-01T12:38:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T12:38:22","slug":"illegal-mining-in-democratic-republic-of-congo-greenpeace-africa-demands-cancellation-of-mining-license-from-chinese-company-kimia-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/press\/14216\/illegal-mining-in-democratic-republic-of-congo-greenpeace-africa-demands-cancellation-of-mining-license-from-chinese-company-kimia-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal mining in Democratic Republic of Congo: Greenpeace Africa demands cancellation of mining license from Chinese company Kimia Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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August 11, 2021, Kinshasa<\/strong> – Greenpeace Africa supports the demand by a group of 205 local NGOs to cancel the mining permit of the Chinese firm Kimia Mining located within the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cFollowing the false comfort last month of seeing Salonga National Park removed from the list of World Heritage in Danger, reality is back with a vengeance,\u201d says Irene Wabiwa Betoko, Greenpeace Africa International Project Leader for the Congo Basin forest. \u201cThis sell-off of forests by the ministers who are supposed to protect them must stop — for the good of forest communities, nature and the climate,\u201d she concludes.<\/p>\n\n

The Okapi Reserve, located in Ituri Province in the northeast of the country, is home to endangered species of primates and birds, and about 5,000 of the 30,000 okapis living in the wild.<\/p>\n\n

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The Okapi in DRC<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

The authorization of the mining activities of Kimia violates, inter alia, article 25 of a February 11, 2014 conservation law which stipulates that \u201cAny activity incompatible with the objectives of conservation is prohibited in protected areas. Subject to the exceptions provided for in this law, any right granted within the limits of protected areas and their buffer zones is void.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Greenpeace Africa fully supports the demands formulated by these 205 NGOs and calls on Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde to give them urgent attention. Greenpeace Africa calls on Mining Minister Antoinette N\u2019samba Kalambayi to comply with nature conservation laws and immediately cancel Kimia Mining\u2019s mining license.<\/p>\n\n

Contacts for interviews:<\/p>\n\n

Rapha\u00ebl Mavambu<\/strong>,
Media and Communication, Greenpeace Africa,
rmavambu@greenpeace.org, +243810679437<\/p>\n\n

Ir\u00e8ne Wabiwa Betoko<\/strong>,
International Project Manager for the Congo Basin Forest a.i., Greenpeace Africa,
iwabiwa@greenpeace.org, +243976756102<\/p>\n\n

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