The Product that Millions of People Consume Every Day Is Quietly Razing One of Africa’s Last Large Forests

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A new cocoa fever is advancing through southeastern Liberia, one of West Africa’s last large rainforest reserves. Mongabay’s research followed satellite alerts to Grand Gedeh and found open plantations within the forest, migrant workers, unclear land agreements and overflowing surveillance. The conclusion is uncomfortable. Cocoa promises income to communities with few alternatives, but its expansion is destroying the resource on which that futur…