Eugène Rutagarama

Eugène Rutagarama is an environmentalist from Rwanda. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2001, for his efforts on saving the population of mountain gorillas in the Volcanoes National Park in the Virungas mountains, during the war and recent conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo.[1]

Eugène Rutagarama
NationalityRwandan
Known forEfforts on saving the population of mountain gorillas in the Virungas mountains
AwardsGoldman Environmental Prize (2001)

References

  1. Goldman Environmental Prize: Eugène Rutagarama Archived 2007-10-30 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on November 10, 2007)


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