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    "Circularity",
    "Climate Action",
    "Conservation",
    "Environment",
    "Evergreen",
    "Africa",
    "African Galapagos",
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  "textContent": "BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For centuries, the tiny West African island of Príncipe was a place where nature was exploited and people were brought in chains to work it. Today, the descendants of those laborers are being paid to protect it. The Faya Foundation, funded by South African tech billionaire Mark Shuttleworth, launched […]\n\nThe post How paying people to protect a rainforest is rewriting colonial history on a tiny African island first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.",
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