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Radio Netherlands
11 February 2003
For many centuries the banks of the Kinabatangan River in Malaysian Borneo were
undoubtedly nature's 'walk of fame'. Rainforest 'celebrities' such as the orang-utan,
the proboscis monkey and the enormous estuarine crocodile would drop by regularly
to leave their footprints along the floodplains. Even the legendary Sumatran
rhino has been known to leave its tracks here, though it was always the 5000kg
Asian elephants that made the biggest impression. More recently though, the introduction
of palm oil plantations has fragmented these animals' habitat. It has begun to
seem that the golden era for some of nature's biggest 'stars' may already be
over.
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