Palm Oil Continues to Plague Borneo’s Orangutans, Elephants, and Other Icons • The Revelator

The bus from Semporna, Malaysia, to the Kinabatangan Wildlife Preserve wound through an unending expanse of palm agricultural fields. On Borneo oil palm plantations line every road, and it seemed almost no natural forest remained. That agricultural development comes with a cost to this biodiversity hotspot: Of the more than 200 species of mammals and … Read more

Sumatran Orangutans • The Revelator

The “people of the forest” won’t live in the wild much longer if we keep chopping down their rainforest homes. Welcome to the inaugural edition of “Save This Species” — a column that lets people advocating for, or working with, a rare of interesting plant or animal share their stories and passions. We launch this … Read more