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It's not every day that a corporation buckles under the pressure of an environmental campaign. . (.)

Why?

Protecting the Ivory Coast's swamps sits high on most environmentalists' to-do lists because . Healthy bogs absorb and store CO₂. But drained bogs decay rapidly, releasing the carbon they contain into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. To make matters worse, .

Environmentalists have also balked at the idea of turning into farmland because over . Many monkeys - like the , a charcoal-coloured animal that scares other monkeys by raising its eyebrows to expose a 'sweat band' of white fur - are rare or extinct outside this 12,000 hectare zone.

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