Illegal gold mining drives deforestation in DRC reserve home to ‘African unicorn’

Mongabay
Nov 25, 2024, 7:29 pm118 pts
>Illegal mining inside the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to spread, satellite data show, driving environmental devastation. Deforestation stayed at a near-record high in 2023, and preliminary data for 2024 shows that clearing continues apace. >The Okapi…

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