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Refugees' fight for survival threatens landscape

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A Rwandan refugee felling a tree near the Nyiragongo Volcano in eastern Zaire. The United Nations fears for the future of the country's forest and national parks in the Goma area as 850,000 refugees seek firewood and shelter

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