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  • Police boat patrols passed brand new Persian-style Putra Mosque towers over artificial lakefront, Putrajaya, Malaysia. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Death Throes of a Great Rainforest - Ethnic Tamil woman slices into bark of rubber tree to tap its latex, Interior hills near Melaka, Malaysia. - Ethnic Tamil woman slices into bark of rubber tree to tap its latex, Interior hills near Melaka, Malaysia. The British introduced industrial plantations to the Malay Peninsula but the practice was greatly expanded, with its corresponding clear cutting of the primary forests, after independents. Now the lowland forests are all but gone on the penninsula. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Indigenous Negrito day labourers take shelter beneath Seri Gemilang Bridge from passing rain shower. For the past three decades, the Malaysian government has actively sought to bring the nomadic, hunter-gatherer Negrito peoples, who have been viewed as primitive, into the settled mainstream Malaysia society. Logging of their native mountain rainforests has made it necessary to take on unskilled labour jobs to feed their families. The short statured, coco-skinned, wooly-haired Negrito people, erroneously believed to be related to the Pygmies of the African Congo, possess unparalleled knowledge of the medicinal and edible plants which grow in the oldest rainforest in the world (130 million years old). Outside the forest, Negritos are reduced to impoverished manual labourers, Putrajaya, Malaysia. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Death Throes of a Great Rainforest - Logging roads pierce forest, Sarawak (Borneo), Malaysia. - Logging roads pierce forest that was wilderness less than ten years ago, deep interior of Sarawak (Borneo), Malaysia. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Introduction: ?For hundreds of miles in every direction, wrote English naturalist and Darwin-contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace of Borneo, ?a magnificent forest extended over plain and mountain, rock and morass?. Frayed remnants of the oldest evergreen rainforest on the planet extend in a crescent from the Malay Peninsula, covering Borneo Island and parts of western Indonesia on up to the top of the Philippine Archipelago. ..More often than not, my eyes have registered logging roads extending into this forest, if there is any left. Often only sparse grasses cover bare hills where the forest Wallace described once stood. Industrialized logging is mostly to blame benefiting very few, leaving impoverished masses to live with the consequences. The burden falls heaviest on the poor, especially indigenous minorities who had relied for thousands of years on sustainable harvesting of natural forest resources. In the worst cases, entire peoples? livelihood and heritage have been shattered. Some of these peoples have even turned to armed conflict and others have turned on migrant outsiders, poor in their own right, who have infiltrated their homelands, after the loggers have left, to exploit the already ravaged land in the name of development and progress...This essay is an exploration of the exploitation, transmigration and civil repercussions within what remains of this once great rainforest...Death Throes of a Great Rainforest - Drowned forest exposed because of drought, Batang Ai Reservoir, Sarawak (Borneo), Malaysia. Batang Ai Dam Project forced 3,000 Iban Dayak people to .relocate while flooding 8,500 hectares of their forest homeland.. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Death Throes of a Great Rainforest - Logging truck laden with gigantic logs raises dust on a private logging road deep in the interior of Borneo, Sarawak (Borneo), Malaysia. ..Logging truck laden with gigantic logs raises dust on a private logging road deep in the interior of Borneo, Sarawak (Borneo), Malaysia. A decade ago this forest was untouched wilderness a day's walk in from the last upriver longhouse, 2 1/2 days by Iban Dayak longboat from the market town of Kapit up the Sungai Gaat River..By logging road, the trip, one way, takes less than three hours. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Death Throes of a Great Rainforest - Intentionally burnt forest., West Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia. -.Intentionally burnt forest to clear land for transmigrants' plantation from the neighboring islands of Sulawesi & Madura immediately adjacent to Gunung Palung Nat'l Pk., West Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Batek Negrito children smoke clove cigarettes, Taman.Negara Rainforest, Malaysia. Several hundred Batek Negritos have sought refuge within this national park from the adjacent logged-over forests because hunting there is no longer productive. This has not insulated the Batek from vices of the outside world. The gov't wishes and has failed to assimilate all Batek into mainstream Malaysian society. These undersized (pygmy) people are the original inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula and directly related to the Negrito peoples of the Philippines. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Death Throes of a Great Rainforest - The last time I saw Agta Negrito headman, Pok, of Sawa, Sierra Madre Mountain rainforest, Philippines. Pok was the headman of Sawa, the settlement of one of the last truly semi-nomadic band of Negritos. Pok asked for two aspirin and walked alone back into the fast shrinking forest from the ragged fringe where outside migrants have begun to live. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Bugi family returns home from market, Bira, Sulawesi, Indonesia. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Stevedores boarding pinisi perahu, Bugi sailing ships, in Sunda Kelapa Harbour, Jakarta, Indonesia. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Bicycles in ?rain dust?, Hanoi, Vietnam. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Cross river Ferry brings passengers and all terrain Russian built trucks across the Cam River, near Haiphong in Northern Vietnam. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • River traffic on canal in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Barefoot workers leading carts through Hanoi, Vietnam. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Market in central Saigon, Vietnam. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Woman squatting on a river ferry, near Hanoi, Vietnam. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Bicycle rider coming to market in Hanoi on the Long Bien Bridge, Hanoi which was repeatedly bombed by American planes during the until American POW ?s were set to rebuilding it, Vietnam.. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Child paddles boat in Mekong River Delta near Vinh Long, Vietnam. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Looking out from shrine at Choeung Ek , the Killing Fields, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Squatters follow earth mover, Phnom Penh city dump, Cambodia. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Bonze making morning rounds for alms, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Girl having dinner in market, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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  • Mother shelters baby on train to Kampot, Cambodia. By photographer James Whitlow Delano
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