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Palm oil plantations, which used to be part of the Batek Negritos' homeland forestland, run right...

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Wary-eyed, almost elfin Batek Negrito beauty of a new mother holding her newborn child, just days...

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This young man is not African, his very deep roots are in Southeast Asia. Young Batek Negrito man...

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Batek Negrito boy swims in the pure waters of a stream that comes out of the old growth rainforest...

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Balang Weng, a Penan man, walks along logging road used by Samling Global Ltd. as it cuts deeper...

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Clear cutting Borneo's rainforest (bottom half of photograph) for conversion to oil palm...

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Where a 130 million year old rainforest stood one generation ago, now there is just bare earth...

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Logging road used by Samling Global Ltd. logging company pushes deeper toward one of the last...

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In his element: Balang Weng, a Penan man, scans the rainforest canopy where he heard a...

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The main street in the town of Hongsibao.

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Mr. Ma, 56, is an “environmental refugee,” having moved with 10 members of his family from the drier, poorer mountainous areas of Ningxia.

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Schoolchildren crossing the road. The relocation of families from the countryside to the town has provided access to school for hundreds of children.

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In an effort to protect the few patches of grass the town has, outside of a school a small sign on...

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Reforestation is one of the ways the town is trying to combat desertification. Stabilizing...

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Mr. Hu, 35, relocated three years ago from the mountainous area of Tongxin. “I could only plant...

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Even though the town has been under construction for 10 years, there are still clear signs that the town is developing.

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Many of the laborers around the town have been part of the relocation. Public workers are offered...

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Many people wear face masks in order to protect them from the sandstorms that regularly descend upon the town.

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