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Disturbing new report released this morning by Greenpeace on the threat to the world's second largest rainforest in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Carving up the Congo claims that European and American industrial logging companies have been systematically buying up an area of forest nearly the size of the UK in order to attract timber, which is largely African teak. The report reckons that if all the forests are felled it could "release" up to 34bn tonnes of carbon - nearly as much as the UK has emitted in 60 years.
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