One half of the annual tropical timber acquisition of the whole world comes from Borneo. Palm oil plantations are rapidly encroaching on the last remnants of primary rainforest. The rainforest was also greatly destroyed due to the forest fires in 1997 to 1998 which were started by people and coincided with an exceptional drought season of El Niño. During the great fire, hotspots could be seen on satellite images and a haze was created that affected Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.

this is just so sad - those poor orangutans not too mention elephants too

Many more interesting photos of Borneo here: http://flickriver.com/photos/tags/borneo/interesting/

Brilliant clip!

Beautiful, but so bloody sad