Deforestation in Borneo
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Deforestation in Borneo has taken place on an industrial scale since the 1960s. Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered by dense
Trees being felled in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, in 2013, to make way for a new coal mining project
Logging road and impacts in East Kalimantan: logged forest on the left, primary forest on the right
A logging truck in Sarawak, Borneo.
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Borneo Orangutan Survival
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The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation is an Indonesian nonprofit non-governmental organization founded by Willie Smits in 1991 and dedicated to the conservation of the endangered Bornean orangutan
Deforestation in Borneo
…Indonesia and Malaysia face with regards to the Borneo rainforest. Recently a reforestation project in East Kalimantan has reported some success. The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS), founded by Dr Willie Smits, bought up nearly 2,000 ha of deforested degraded land in East Kalimantan that had suffered from mechanical logging…
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The Bornean orangutan
Kevin, one of the young orangutans at Nyaru Menteng, takes a nap.
Yellow-vented bulbul, one of the 137 species of birds now found at Samboja Lestari