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Cameroon’s Mangrove Forests Are Choking on Plastics

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EOS

Publication Date
2021-04-21

Large amounts of plastic—bottles, cups, bags, plates, and other debris of various shapes and colors—washed up on the nearby boat ramp as we sat down to breakfast at a waterfront restaurant on our first morning in Youpwe, a neighborhood on the Wouri Estuary in Douala, Cameroon.

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https://eos.org/features/cameroons-mangrove-forests-are-choking-on-plastics