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Forests of Borneo

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Along the river entrances to National Reserves, guard posts are set up to protect the orang-utans from poachers and the forest from illegal loggers.

INDONESIA | Thursday, 10 January 2013 | Views [249] | View Larger Image

Along the river entrances to National Reserves, guard posts are set up to protect the orang-utans from poachers and the forest from illegal loggers.

Today the forest of Borneo are but a shadow of those in the past, and the remaining are threatened by illegal logging and mining, and palm oil platations causing great concern for orang-utan conservation.

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Mining operations have contributed a lot to the environmental damage of the nation’s forest, and have the greatest impact on the landscape, leaving the land desolate and bare.

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