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[Rupadarshin]

Good News from Borneo!

Just celebrating a Positive article re RE-forestation: Headline "Borneo's 'miracle'" In 23.05.08 Guardian Weekly, page 29. By Juliette Jowit reprinted from the Observer

A Dr Willie Smits, the Indonesian forestry expert, of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, replanted 2,000 hectares of de-nuded rainforest in Samboja in Borneo with 1.300 species of local trees, planted with a special "micro-biological agent" made from sugar, excrement, food waste, sawdust and cow urine. After 6 years, trees have reached 35 metres, cloud cover has increased by 12 per cent, rainfall by a quarter, temperatures down by 3-5C.. Nine species of primate have returned, 30 types of mammal, 116 bird species.

Good news is worth repeating. That's 2,000 hectares clawed back from the 14,000 hectares the UN says are cut down daily. The local people have benefited hugely from this. If local people could simply replant once the loggers have gone, the world could be a better place, in time. Anyone up for a mission?

Lets have a thread for positive news that bucks the trend of wholesale destruction, please?
ps A tricky site this one (I couldn't find a 'Post new Thread' button, so used QR as it was an option.....)

[forfismum]

OK friend,what you do is this ,look at the toolbar it read.
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