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In 2021, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s biggest province, Tshopo, lost 12,000 hectares (30,000 acres) of intact forests to fires. Researchers based in the provincial capital, Kisangani, suspect the record-breaking forest loss is linked to expanding cultivation of cacao by recent migrants from neighboring North Kivu province. These unbroken forest landscapes are some of the […] ....

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