Borneo Bound

My graduate program, Project Dragonfly (through Miami University of Ohio) chooses to take students to various corners of the world to share conservation success stories. These all share one component, community involvement.

The sites I saw in Borneo was both inspiring and terrifying, as you would expect. The biodiversity is awe-inspiring.

And the destruction is shocking. More than half of the island of Borneo (60%) is Oil Palm Plantation. This non-native mono-culture cannot sustain the native biodiversity. Oil Palm is impressively productive.

Unfortunately, the local people have worked to take full advantage of this crop, as people across the world often do; leaving very little natural habitats in-tact.

Fortunately, there are grass-roots armies scattered across the world, fighting to help natural environments sustain themselves.  My other blog posts on Borneo touches on some of these. I hope you enjoy them!