The push is part of a larger conservation effort led by UNEP. Its goal: to protect the fast-disappearing rainforests and peatlands of eight Congo Basin countries.

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Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, Florida, features a two-acre, open-air tropical rainforest exhibit, the only of its kind in the continental United States.