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Chocolate industry killing Ivory Coast's forests, report warns

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Published Thu, Sep 14, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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    Abidjan, West Africa

    THE chocolate industry is indirectly driving massive and illegal deforestation in Ivory Coast, fuelling a catastrophic decline in wildlife, a green group said on Wednesday.

    "In several national parks and other protected areas, 90 per cent or more of the land mass has been converted to cocoa," the group Mighty Earth said in its investigation.

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