In 2017, a team of scientists from the U.K. and the Republic of Congo announced the discovery of Cuvette Centrale, a massive peatland in the Congo Basin—and currently the largest tropical peatland on the earth that we know of.

First up today, Mongabay senior reporter John Cannon brings us the story of the Congo Basin peatlands.

Then, researcher Tempe Adams from Elephants Without Borders talks about her work in Botswana, home to the largest elephant population in the world.

Cover image: Peatland restoration in the Congo, 2018, by Ricky Martin/CIFOR via Flickr, shared under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 (top) / Elephant cooling off with a mud bath in Botswana, 2017, by caterina sanders on Unsplash (bottom)

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