Plunder for profit: the threats of palm oil production
Think of Borneo, the third-largest island on earth, and the images conjured up are of ancient tropical rainforests shrouded in mist, their branches bowed under epiphytic orchids while, to a backdrop of gibbon calls, exotic, colourful birds forage along these limbs. Borneo boasts 52 endemic bird species, one of which, the Bornean Bristlehead, is sometimes…