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Africa’s lush tropical forests face a surprising threat: fire
![White Butterfly, Western High Plateau, Cameroon.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/media.nature.com/w767/magazine-assets/d41586-024-01395-9/d41586-024-01395-9_27083232.jpg)
Hills blaze in Cameroon. Fires are becoming increasingly frequent in moist tropical forests of West and Central Africa. Credit: Jan Mastnik/Shutterstock
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Nature 629, 731 (2024)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01395-9
References
Wimberly, M. C., Wanyama, D., Doughty, R., Peiro, H. & Crowell, S. Geophys. Res. Lett. 51, e2023GL106240 (2024).