diff --git a/Tools/deafrica_tools/app/animations.py b/Tools/deafrica_tools/app/animations.py
index 76e8a4ff..95e895bd 100644
--- a/Tools/deafrica_tools/app/animations.py
+++ b/Tools/deafrica_tools/app/animations.py
@@ -3,13 +3,6 @@
 Satellite imagery animation widget, which can be used to interactively
 produce animations for multiple DE Africa products.
 """
-
-# Force GeoPandas to use Shapely instead of PyGEOS
-# In a future release, GeoPandas will switch to using Shapely by default.
-import os
-
-os.environ["USE_PYGEOS"] = "0"
-
 import datetime
 import itertools
 import json