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

Summary by Conservation News
>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 Wildlife Reserve covers 14,000 square kilometers (5,405 square miles) of Congo Basin rainforest. It protects an astounding array of globa…

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ecotopical.com broke the news in on Tuesday, November 26, 2024.
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