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How coffee is saving a unique Mozambican forest

From a distance, Mount Gorongosa looks pockmarked. But in recent years, the forest has been growing back, thanks to a previously foreign crop: coffee.

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Pedro Muagara, a trained agronomist and the park's director, had planted a few seedlings, until the conflict shattered his coffee dreams. As the war dragged into its final years, besieged rebels camped on the mountain slopes with their families. They cleared the forest to grow crops to survive.