New York Times: From above, the forests of Cameroon seem to sweep across the land in an unending carpet of green. The forested swath is the second-largest in Africa, with tens of thousands of people at its fringes and nestled in its lush depths, dependent on what appears to be a continuous canopy. But according to an updated interactive map released by the World Resources Institute in partnership with the government of Cameroon, this blanket of trees is not as encompassing as it seems. The atlas, coded with...
URL: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/mapping-cameroons-motley-canopy/
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