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Podcast: Mongabay Newscast
Episode: What's in store for the world's forests in 2021?
Description: From fires to COVID, 2020 was a *bit* of a rough year for forest conservation efforts. But what's in store, and hopeful, for 2021? On this episode, we catch up with Mongabay's founder and CEO Rhett Butler to hear what's on his radar for the year--from the Amazon to Africa and Indonesia--plus for a forest focus on Africa, we ask Joe Eisen, the executive director of the NGO Rainforest Foundation UK, for his take on the past year and the major issues and events likely to impact Africa's tropical forests over the course of 2021. Here's Rhett's latest...