The cousins from Indonesia who revived an ancient spring

Mongabay
Feb 1, 2017, 5:20 am157 pts
On the eastern Indonesian island of Flores, verdant bamboo groves and thickets of tall mahogany and teak trees today carpet once bare hills. The young forest is the handiwork of two cousins. Over the last 18 years, they have planted near 6,000 teak trees and 3,000 candlenut trees and more banana trees than they…

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