Takeaways about AP’s research into cocoa from a protected Nigerian rainforest

OMO FOREST RESERVE, Nigeria (AP) — The habitat of a dwindling population of critically endangered African forest elephants is under threat, a victim of the world’s chocolate hunger. Deforestation caused by planting cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate, is reducing the Omo Forest Reserve, a protected rainforest in southwestern Nigeria that helps combat climate change … Read more