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06/11/2018 / By Vicki Batts

Orangutan defends forest home from giant excavator ripping down trees

As the problem of deforestation continues to spread around the globe, one brave orangutan has decided that he’s had enough. Loggers were tearing down trees left and right in the Ketapang Regency on the island of Borneo, when the orangutan began defending its home. Daring to climb across a fallen tree, the fearless creature charged towards […]

05/16/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Researchers find that the shape of tropical forests determine their stability; to prevent collapse of these ecosystems we must not alter the contours

To save our forests, we must first save its shape. This is what scientists have come up with after studying how fires on the edge of the forest have affected its shape and stability. The findings, which were published in the journal Ecology Letters, also revealed that when these forests lose their natural shape – usually […]

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