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THE GREEN HEART: trees of life

never set out to make a 'connection' with Africa's forests. Chimpanzees forced me to do it. A week tracking them through the jungles of Semliki National Park in Western Uganda during the mid-1990s proved so resoundingly unsuccessful - the chimps hooting with glee each time they gave us the slip

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