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Elephant's appetite coaxes forests into storing more carbon

Elephants been called a lot of things: the world’s largest land creatures, imperiled, majestic, charismatic. Now scientists have a few more terms for describing them: foresters and climate champions.

The thick gray line: Forest elephants defend against climate change
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The thick gray line: Forest elephants defend against climate change

If the species is wiped out by poachers, Africa’s vast rain forest will lose 7 percent of its carbon storage ability, scientists estimate.
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