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VIDEO: Mapping the Congo Basin forests
29 Feb 2008 10:53:00 GMT
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Feb 23 - The Congo Basin rainforest is being cut back at unprecedented speed.

Logging companies have traditionally lead the destruction, but a project to save the ancestral hunting grounds and sacred trees of the indigenous Pygmy population is not only seeing Pygmies use hi-tech mapping devices, but is also roping in logging companies to help save the forest.




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