cut off from the national park is very rare in the past f.t.l. a militia so just supplied us with charcoal from virunga park. but if we get caught selling them accounted today we go to jail for years. but the fact is the illegal charcoal trade is impossible to control and it's destroying the park. if it goes unchecked there will be no forests left in the eastern congo in less than ten years. that's why part director a man who had a top priority is to develop alternative energy sources. he wants to use the large rivers in the room to supply the province of north kivu with electricity a first hydroelectric power plant was completed last year in. much of it never was on pretty much as just the beginning so far the power plant has been producing thirteen megawatts but with a bit of luck we'll reach one hundred megawatts in five years that was five hundred megawatts is twice as total energy production and twenty five times the amount of electricity currently supplying the city of goma. thank you and that the park could make an enormous contribution to the energy supply in the province. and for