Ecowatch: Malaysia’s natural heritage is calling out for protection

A baby orang utan in the trees; watchful mum wouldn’t have been far behind. The babies are often captured for the illegal pet trade with the protective mum usually killed. — ANUAR BADARRUDIN

I ARRIVED at the Kabili-Sepilok Forest Reserve in Sabah expecting beauty. I did not expect a reckoning.

The rainforest does not argue the way humans do. It simply lays out the evidence.