Researchers in Belgium report that 45 percent of deforestation in Côte d'Ivoire in the past decade is the result of unregulated cocoa production.
Researchers from the Belgian university of Louvain found that 45 percent of the destruction of forest in Côte d’Ivoire between 2000 and 2019 was the result of unregulated cocoa production. Tropical forest covering 2.5 million hectares was destroyed for cocoa plantations.
