Reading of 'the Most Amazing Place That Nobody's Heard Of'

Hello, today I will be reading part of an article titled The Most Amazing Place That nobody's heard of on positive news.org A new short film hopes to rally vast support for the protection of a lesser-known but vitally important part of Africa, now endangered by exploration for oil by a British company. Nicola Slawson heads to the premiere to discover what makes Virunga special British Actress Anna Friel visits Virunga National Park as part of WWF's campaign Photo © WWF The camera flies through stormy clouds and flashes of lightning as the music intensifies. It pans out to reveal glaciers, mountain peaks and jagged cliffs that flash by before the screen fills with bubbling lava inside an active volcano, followed by images of thousands of miles of pristine forest. Next we're taken into dense undergrowth. A gorilla runs by. We see the huge brown eyes of a baby chimpanzee and then a family of elephants. Suddenly we hear British actress, Anna Friel, speak. "Virunga," she says. Never heard of it? Neither had I until Monday night at the premiere of a short film with the same name, produced by conservation charity WWF. But Virunga is actually Africa's oldest National Park and surpasses all others in terms of the diversity of its habitats. Situated in the Democratic Republic of Congo, it's a UNESCO World Heritage Site but has been on the endangered list since war broke out in 1996. Surviving against all odds, it's now under threat once again, but this time from the British oil giant, SOCO International plc, who are proposing oil exploration there.