Mutsamudu, Comoros, Aug 29, 2025 (AFP) - Fight to save last forests of the Comoros unites farmers and NGOs

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2025-08-29

Strips of bare land scar the lush and green mountainsides towering above Mutsamudu, the capital of the Indian Ocean island of Anjouan. On the most mountainous and densely populated island in the Comoros, only the most remote forests have escaped decades of deforestation -- ravages which several NGOs are now trying to repair. "We lost 80 percent of our natural forests between 1995 and 2014," Abubakar Ben Mahmoud, environment minister of the countr......

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