This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network. Over three years ago, residents of Mwase, near the city of Lubumbashi in southeastern DRC, celebrated when their provincial governor granted the community almost 10,000 hectares of their local forest for self-management. Supported by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the community, located in the mineral-rich Haut-Katanga provinc…
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