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...years, she became president and was happy. But her story was not over...until her board named someone else to succeed her and her term ended. Then she went home to get some sleep, returning only to write a parting shot before she headed off into the wilds of Borneo...
Well, actually, I'm just going back to Currier to work on my thesis. The wilds of Borneo would be easier...
That interest remained keen after Burton moved back to Hong Kong to take up a regional reporting beat that entails travel from Islamabad to Borneo, from Rangoon to the disputed Spratly Island of Layang Layang. With the collaboration of current TIME Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz and correspondent Mia Turner, Burton kept current on the Chinese environmental saga, and the Three Gorges piece, which appears in this issue, is the result...
...Urban thirst for fuel wood and building materials leads to deforestation, which can destroy an area's watershed and thus cause flooding and soil erosion. In many cases, the impact of urban centers extends across the seas. Demand for plywood building materials in Japanese cities drives the decimation of Borneo's forests...
...rich, CO2-creating countries pay for the service of preserving those forests, instead of hectoring the poor countries not to utilize one of their few natural resources? Mahathir, of course, is not exactly a disinterested party; his country has been charged with rampant overlogging in peninsular Malaysia and Borneo...