Journey to DRC rainforest destined to be drilled for oil | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

foreign [Music] River to explore one of the oil blocks designated for auction by the government we're on our way to meet the village chief who's about 15 kilometers or so away and a little bit of a roadblock you know you get a very real sense of the depth of feeling here just by driving it on this track through these little communities because we keep being mistaken

to being part of the oil exploration project and quite a lot of people the adults have come running out shouting get out of here we don't want you here we want to keep our forest leave our forest alone and it has got quite aggressive as well oh reaction my first reaction is that people would have to kill me and then kill our people before this happens

the life of people depends a hundred percent on the forest here any kind of drilling activities would be devastating foreign [Music]