Congo’s Virunga park marks 100th birthday with chocolate gorillas in

A worker packages gorilla molded chocolates at the Virunga chocolate factory which processes dried cocoa beans from farms set up on the periphery of Virunga National Park, as part of an initiative to encourage agricultural and industrial activities in the area and thus prevent residents from engaging in logging and poaching, in the outskirts of Beni, North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo April 15, 2025. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere