Elephants promote jumbo trees, boosting the carbon stores in Africa’s forests

Mongabay
Jan 27, 2023, 6:02 pm213 pts
Previous studies have shown that Africa’s tropical forests store more carbon per hectare than Amazonian forests. But how they do so is still a puzzle. It turns out that elephants play an outsized role in the upkeep of healthy forests. New research shows that without these giant gardeners, forests in West and…

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