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The world's second-largest rainforest is at a turning point

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The Congo Basin contains the world's second largest rainforest, just shy of 440 million acres. The basin itself is even larger, covering 1.4 million square miles or a bit less than half the size of Australia. It serves as the drainage basin for the second longest river in the world, the Congo.

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