Subsistence farming topples forests near commercial operations in Congo

Mongabay
Jan 23, 2020, 11:03 am263 pts
The effects of commercial logging, mining and farming can ripple beyond the boundaries of the operations, leading to the substantial loss and degradation of nearby forest for subsistence agriculture, a new study on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has found. The finding, reported Jan. 16 in the journal…

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