Photos of borneo in Indonesia) [updated 2009-05-24]

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Young orang-utan grasping a woody liana Young orangutan feeding on fruit Mother orangutan with baby Young orangutan eating a banana while hanging from a vine Pair of orangutans climbing a large liana in Borneo Mother orangutan with infant in tree Yellow and black horned spider Colony of termites in moving along a log in the rainforest Brown leaf frog in Borneo Insect nest emerging from rainforest tree White fungi with emerging black hairs Orangutan nest in rainforest tree in Borneo Red weevil-like insect with yellow and black legs Red beetle-like insect with yellow and black legs Ferns colonized this patch of forest cleared for rice fields. The soils are so degraded no other vegetation grows. The forest was cleared in the 1920s or 1930s. Deforested patch of forest in Borneo. Resistant ferns have colonized the clearing, preventing other types of vegetation from returning. Once a former rice field, the soils of this forest patch have been leached of nutrients. The only way to restore trees here is to clear the ferns. Adult Male Orangutan in motion Adult Male Orang-utan eating a Rambutan fruit Ex-captive Adult Male Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) Rehabilitated Adult Male Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) eating a rambutan fruit Rehabilitated Adult Male Orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus) lost in thought over a pile of rambutan fruit Blackwater river flowing into the whitewater Seikonyer river Crocodile nest site in water lillies along the Sekonyer River Sunset on the Sekonyer River Sunset over the Sekonyer River Houses on the deforested plain just outside Tanjung Puting National Park Ferns and other epiphytes Seikonyer River Speedboat on the Seikonyer River Speedboat carrying silica and gold miners on the Seikonyer River Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8 | Page 9 | Page 10 | Page 11 | Page 12 | Page 13 | Page 14 | Page 15 | Page 16 | Page 17 | Page 18 | Page 19 | Page 20 | Page 21 | Page 22 | Page 23 | Page 24 | Page 25 | Page 26 | Page 27 | Page 28 | Page 29 | Page 30 | Page 31