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Above the rainforest

Updated: 2013-02-05 09:53
By D J Clark & Mark Esplin ( chinadaily.com.cn)

Taking in the pristine Borneo Tropical Rainforest Resort is unfortunately very much an endangered experience. The promise of quick profits from cutting it down and selling the wood has outweighed the international calls for preservation. That is in most areas except the small state of Brunei. Workers have been busy extracting the the oil-rich sultanate's natural resources from under the ground, leaving the forests above untouched. D J Clark went to investigate.

Above the rainforest

With thanks to the Ulu Ulu National Park Resort

Video: D J Clark & Mark Esplin

Producer: Flora Yue

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About D J Clark

D J Clark has worked worldwide as a multimedia journalist for more than 20 years. As well as working for China Daily he runs an MA course in Multimedia journalism at Beijing Foreign Studies University and is the Director of Visual Journalism at the Asia Center for Journalism in Manila, Philippines.

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