New Law Hands Over Protected Forests in Ivory Coast to Chocolate Industry

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By Jordan DavidsonOct 17, 2019, 2:24 pm112 pts
Ivory Coast's rainforests have been decimated by cocoa production and what is left is put in peril by a new law that will remove legal protections for thousands of square miles of forests, according to The Guardian. None The new law hands unprecedented power over to the chocolate industry in a country that is…

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