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Indonesia: Ecocide in action in Kalimantan Updated
2013-01-28 13:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: In Indonesia, the name for the island of Borneo is Kalimantan. It is the third largest island in the world, renowned for its lush tropical rainforests, one of only two strongholds for the intelligent, endangered orangutan. While eco-tourism in Kalimantan is a booming industry as people travel from all over the world to see orangutans in their natural habitat, so too is palm oil: the former depends upon intact ecosystems; the latter can only thrive by eradicating natural ecosystems. Recently,...
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