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Radio France Internationale
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Meet the NGOs striving to save the last forests of the Comoros

A man fills a basket with flowers from the ylang-ylang tree in Morori, Comoros Islands. AFP

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.

Strips of bare land scar the lush and green mountainsides towering above Mutsamudu, the capital of the Indian Ocean island of Anjouan.

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