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A 7 page paper which examines how the war in the Congo is affecting the wildlife and the environment. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
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there are often victims involved, victims who are completely innocent and who have no power to control the violence that surrounds them. In the case of the Congo some of
the innocent victims are the environment and the wildlife. The Congo, rich with wildlife and a diverse environment, is suffering greatly because of the war and devastation.
When people think of war they rarely think of these innocent victims. They do not concern themselves with what is happening to the animals or
the environment in which a war takes place. They are only concerned with the people who are suffering, or the people who need to win, or the politics and economics
of the war. But, as human beings people are responsible for the environment and animals and they are deeply reliant on that natural balance that they must protect. In the
case of the Congo the environment is being destroyed for the benefit of man, through mining, and it is being inadvertently destroyed through warfare. The wildlife is also suffering the
same, being used for monetary profit and through inadvertent disregard. In short, the environment and the wildlife are the innocent victims of the war that rages in the Congo.
The War in the Congo and the Environment One of the most obvious focuses of the war involves the environment, and the
essentially raping of that environment. The desired natural resource is coltan: "Walikale is the scene of a war within a war, a microcosm of a broader regional conflict where groups
of armed men prey upon civilians and fight for control of the valuable natural resources found in Democratic Republic of Congo" (OReilly, 2004). This particular resource is being mined, thus
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