In Guinea, more than 23,000 chimpanzees could be directly or indirectly impacted by mining activities. Rixie / Adobe Stock
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More than a third of Africa’s great apes are being put at much greater risk from global mining activities than scientists had previously believed, according to a new study led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv).
The green energy transition’s increasing demand for critical minerals like copper, nickel, cobalt and lithium has led to…
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