Deforestation surges in Virunga National Park in the wake of violence

Mongabay
Oct 5, 2018, 12:54 pm377 pts
In recent months, large chunks of lush tropical forest have been cleared from Virunga National Park, a reserve famous both for its resident mountain gorillas and for the paramilitary groups that have long spread violence throughout the region. That’s according to new data from the forest monitoring platform…

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