Infrastructure for African mines destroying forests at 34 times the rate of the mines themselves

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Jun 6, 2026, 4:00 pm336 ptsTop
Industrial-scale mining in Africa to support global supply chains is leading to unprecedented deforestation across the continent, with 34 hectares of forest removed for every single hectare of active mine site.

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