Borneo: An Environmental Frontier?

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Since 1996, 400 new species have been found on Borneo, a small island in the Southwest Pacific. 52 new species have been found since 2005. One of the largest remaining rainforests, it's mass has been reduced by about 50% due to logging. The new species represent mammals, fish, amphibeans and plants.

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If you click the link you'll find a video of the cloud leopard. On that video page you can also watch an angry whale knock several Japanese fishermen out of a small boat, killing one and a calf eating a live chick.

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Saw part of a program last night about Borneo. Scientists looking for more new species. Hoping that their findings may encourage enactment of laws to protect what remains of the rain forests.

More than a little discouraging to hear logging in the background.

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I'd like to see the rainforest become a world-wide natural resource, protected by an international body.

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So would I. The richness of the animal and plant life is phenomenal. If action is taken, I hope it's not to late. I really didn't believe that there was much on the surface of the land that was unknown. This is a place that still holds some surprises.

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