"In wildness is the preservation of the world."
-- Henry David Thoreau, 1851
Lecture at Concord Lyceum
Kapuas River, Borneo

The Kapuas River has been called "the Mississippi of Borneo." Using the river to move vast numbers of logs to the coast, logging companies have deforested much of western Borneo in the past 30 years.

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