Marijuana cultivation whittling away Madagascar’s largest connected forest

Mongabay
May 29, 2020, 6:48 pm354 pts
Between the cacao fields of northwest Madagascar and the vanilla of the northeast, a chain of rainforests bob along the highland interior. Tsaratanana Reserve, home to the country’s highest peak, has long been a key link in the chain, with abundant primary forest mostly undisturbed by human activity. Yet the…

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