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Madagascar’s biggest mine achieves striking conservation success

Efforts to protect at-risk forests are projected to make up for the forest lost to an enormous mine.
Indri-Indri is the largest living species of lemurs and are found around a giant nickel-cobalt mine in Madagascar.

The indri (Indri indri), the world’s largest lemur, lives in the forest around an immense mine in eastern Madagascar. Credit: Sebastien Desbureaux

An ambitious goal to prevent an enormous nickel mine from causing net forest loss is on track for success, according to a statistical analysis1.

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Nature 603, 367 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00643-0

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  1. Devenish, K., Desbureaux, S., Willcock, S. & Jones, J. P. G. Nature Sustain. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00850-7 (2022).

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