this is the greatest threat to biodiversity on the planet
The devastation of the Malay/Indonesian Archipelago’s rain forest, the most ancient and species-rich on the earth, by loggers and its conversion to oil-palm plantations. http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0926-hance-bikam-perak.html?n3ws1ttr#U6l3VHpg4e1HOBtb.01
Two years ago with Birute Galdikas, who has been researching and fighting for Borneo’s orangutans for four decades, I drove along the 50-mile western perimeter of Tanjing Puting National Park, in …Read More