"What has devastated Mt. Gorongosa’s forest canopy is aggressive deforestation.

"People are poor and telling them not to cut forest wood makes no sense. There was no motivation for them to guard the forest.

"So our innovation to plant and embed coffee trees amongst the fast-growing indigenous trees quickly won over local communities."

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“The forest is us, and we are it too”

How native forest in Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park is getting a helping hand from an unlikely partner: coffee farming.

^{Winile Ximba (Rewilding Magazine)}