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Forests in Liberia are falling to cocoa, in half a year the EU could ban imports

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Forests in Liberia are falling to cocoa, in half a year the EU could ban imports
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On this week’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we speak with features writer Ashoka Mukpo, who traveled to southeastern Liberia to investigate what satellite images indicated was a spike in deforestation over a relatively concentrated period. Along with video production coordinator Juan Maza, Mukpo documented illegal cacao plantations in the rainforests in the county of Grand Gedeh. In this interview, he explains how and why these plantations are appearing now in Liberia. “What we saw … probab

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