Education
Ngongo graduated from the University of Kisangani with a bachelor"s degree in Biology in 1987.
Ngongo graduated from the University of Kisangani with a bachelor"s degree in Biology in 1987.
In 1994, he created the non-governmental organization OCEAN (Organisation Concertée des Ecologistes et Amis de la Nature) in order to protect the DRC"s natural resources. In 2009, René Ngongo received the "for his courage in confronting the forces that are destroying the Congo’s rainforests and building political support for their conservation and sustainable use”.