World Wide Fund for Nature - DRC

WWF started working in the DRC in the mid-1980s through a programme largely focused on Protected Areas in some of the most emblematic sites in the East of the country: Garamba National Park, Okapi Wildlife Reserve, Virunga National Park and Kahuzi-Biega National Park. Despite the armed conflicts that ravaged the country in the mid-1990s, WWF maintained a continuous presence in the DRC and gradually expanded its geographical and thematic scope. The country office opened in Kinshasa in March 2004.

WWF works in close collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development and the Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature (ICCN), which is the official body in charge of conservation in the country. We also work with local environmental civil society organizations and logging companies engaged in sustainable forest management.