“Nature protects us, so it’s our duty to protect nature,” says Ajie Dewanto. As technical director of Indonesia’s Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve, he and his team of conservationists are doing just that. On the island of Borneo, Rimba Raya occupies more than 140 square miles of the Seruyan peat swamp forest, which had been slated for development into an oil palm plantation. Instead, the preserve continues to provide critical habitat for orangutans that have been reintroduced. And by focusing sim...
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