L.A.-sized tract of primary forest went up in flames in DRC province in 2020

Mongabay
Aug 27, 2021, 11:34 am244 pts
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Sankuru province saw record-breaking fires in 2020 — 9500 square kilometers (3,700 square miles) of land burned. More than 1,500 km2 (580 mi2) of this was old-growth forest, an area the size of Los Angeles, including extensive tracts in the Sankuru Nature Reserve. Burnt…

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