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One-Time Illegal Logger Fights to Save the Forests of Borneo

Posted by Benjamin Shaw of National Geographic Weekend on July 15, 2011
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Yayasan Palung: Saving the people to save the forest from Robert Little on Vimeo.

Pak Bastarian was once an illegal logger, cutting trees in the forests of West Kalimantan, Borneo. Today he is a conservationist, leading his village of former headhunters in the fight to prevent oil palm plantations from clearing forest in his village.