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Borneo Project.(reforestation, Baram, Sarawak)

Penan restore biodiversity, one seed at a time

Lina Kajan, a young Penan mother, is waiting for the giant canopy trees of the world's oldest rainforest to bear fruit. When they do, she'll traverse steep slopes and ravines, searching for fallen fruit and seeds. As she finds them, she'll toss them into a homemade rattan backpack and make her way back to her village before dark.

In the patchwork of beauty and devastation that is Sarawak, Malaysia, Kajan belongs to a forest-dependent culture with highly developed systems for survival and self-sufficiency. The Penan are traditionally nomadic hunter-gatherers in the northern mountains of Borneo. They number about 10,000, ...

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