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Preserving the Congo Basin’s Trees, Part 3

August 15, 2013

Living on Earth’s special report on REDD and the Congo Basin concludes. There’s optimism that REDD could help preserve the carbon in the trees and, perhaps, alleviate the poverty of the nation’s people.

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