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How Saving Ecosystems Saves Lives
2014-02-04 14:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: One of the first things you realize about Borneo is how difficult it can be to land a plane. On my first trip there, our plane circled the provincial capital of Palangkaraya for a half hour before a window in the smoke opened long enough to land. Like many places in the tropics, Borneo is burning--and the consequences are widespread. Every year more than 2 million acres [almost 810,000 hectares] of Indonesian rainforest are destroyed. Between 2000 and 2010, nearly a quarter of Borneos diverse...
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