Mike Shanahan (Under the Banyan) reports on the rapid decline of
seed dispersing and other animals in the world’s most
botanically diverse forest. (And no, it doesn’t have anything to
do with that bug-bear of northern-hemisphere conservationists,
overpopulation, as he details in a comment.) Mike at Under the
Banyan Tree reports on the seemingly daunting but ultimately
encouraging struggle to recover a forest devastated by loggin in
Borneo. The national park managers showed us before and after
photographs that revealed how they were slowly turning a
wasteland into something that once more resembled a forest.
Since 2005, they have planted more than a million trees on 5,000
hectares of the burnt and deforested land. In 2012, they aim to
plant trees on another 2,000 hectares. This is just a start.
Because forests like that at Sebangau store vast quantities of
carbon below ground in their buried peat and above ground in
their trees, they can play an important role in limiting climate
change. It means that efforts