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Deforestation in Africa's Congo Basin rainforest slows
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23382526Satellite images of Africa's Congo Basin reveal that deforestation has fallen by about a third since 2000.
Researchers believe this is partly because of a focus on mining and oil rather than commercial agriculture, where swathes of forest are cleared.
The work is published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
It is part of a series that is examining the state of Africa's forests.
