EXCLUSIVE: GERIK: Sorja Tan (pic) remembers a time when it was easy to find karas trees – tall, straight jungle giants – that grew in the forest reserves here.
Now, there are days when he leaves the forest after a long day of gaharu collecting empty-handed.
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