Congo activist works to halt deforestation
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Two men cut down a tropical hardwood tree in eastern Congo. The Congo rainforest is the second largest in the world, after the Amazon, but logging is taking place there at a very high speed. This scene took place in Kayete near Kisangani in Congo DRC. (Jan-Joseph Stok/GlobalPost)
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