Farmers and NGOs unite to save the last forests of the Comoros


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Workers fill a jute sack with ylang-ylang flowers before the distilling process in Bambao Mtsanga. — Photos: AFP

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

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.

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