In which Sub-Saharan African island nation has commercial logging and agricultural clearing caused the tropical rainforest to disappear almost entirely from the eastern half of the island?
A) the Democratic Republic of Congo
B) Republic of the Congo
C) Gabon
D) Madagascar
E) Ghana
D) Madagascar
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A) resource B) government C) locally D) export E) import
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