Rene Ngongo, DR Congo
Rene Ngongo. Photo credit: Parent Directory
Rene Ngongo is a renowned Congolese biologist and environmentalist committed to championing the protection of forests and social justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is the founder of OCEAN, a non-profit organization focused on giving a voice and infrastructure to Congolese people in their fight against deforestation.
Ngongo is an expert in environmental destruction in the Congo Forest Basin. He also works with forest communities in the country by sensitizing them to their rights with regard to protecting the environment.
The first person in DR Congo to win the Right Livelihood Award, which is considered the equivalent of Nobel Peace Prize, Ngongo began working with Greenpeace (a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in more than 40 countries) in 2004.
Since then, he has been challenging the Congolese government and international corporations that carry out mining activities in the DRC in order to ensure transparency in the ongoing forest reforms.
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