In June 2025, a year-long investigation exposed an illegal trade smuggling timber from protected areas in the Congolese rainforest into neighbouring Burundi. Award-winning Burundian journalist Arthur Bizimana and his collaborator Martin Leku, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, risked their safety by travelling deep into the rainforest — the world’s second-largest — to gather material for their exclusive story on the impact on this crucial carbon sink.
Their assignment was financially supported by InfoNile, a journalism network focusing on cross-border investigations in the Nile Basin, and Global Forest Watch, a data platform funded by the United Nations Environment Programme and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), among others.
It’s the kind of in-depth investigative work that far exceeds the reporting budgets of most research news publications, such as Nature or Science — and that attracts little attention from large media organizations and newspapers. Often, such reporting is made possible only because of grants given to journalists by private philanthropies or government donors.
But with these grants drying up as philanthropic donors tighten their purse strings in the wake of US-led cuts to international development and health budgets, the ability of journalists such as Bizimana and Leku to hold power to account is diminishing. http://spklr.io/6045DQiAf
Trekking across Malaysia, her adopted country, she found more than 150 unrecorded plant species. “She’s one of the greatest botanists who ever lived,” a colleague said.
Ruth Kiew with members of a research staff in Malaysia in 1999. She remained dazzled by the profusion and diversity of plant life in the ancient forests of Malaysia and Borneo.Credit...via Kiew Family 從下方拍攝的照片中，她坐在嶙峋的岩石上，周圍有四位男士。
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo (1988) is a travel book by American writer Eric Hansen, about a seven-month, 4000 km long journey (of which 2300 km on foot) through the heartland of Borneo in 1982. Hansen became one of the few westerners to walk across the island. He did so largely with the aid of local Penan, who took him away from the rivers, the most used transportation routes in Borneo, to walk through the jungle. The journey started in Marudi in Sarawak, Malaysia, at the northwest coast of the island. When, after an illegal border-crossing, he eventually emerged near the east coast in Kalimantan, Indonesia, the confrontation with western civilisation gave him such a culture shock that he turned around for another crossing of the island.
The book was reviewed in the New York Times (1988) by Deborah Stead who said "Stranger in the Forest is a gracefully written and passionate book that is full of such unexpected delights. It is an account of a strange world made palpable, written with disarming modesty and rare sensitivity."[4] Jack Mathews writing in the Los Angeles Times (1988) criticized Hansen for going native and hunting local wildlife, "A few more fascinated visitors like him and the jungles of Borneo won't be quite so fascinating, to Hansen or anyone else."[5]
In fact, Mr. Hansen mentions the Ridgeway expedition in passing and says that inland people have little desire to act as guides for such groups because they believe ''white people . . . are foolishly obsessed with time and distance regardless of terrain, weather, mood, hunting.'' Rick Ridgeway, who had a corporate sponsor and a fairly inflexible timetable, affirmed the truth of that insight. 「他做到了，」他最後說。
''just as in the highland communities of Borneo an electronic wristwatch that plays 'Happy Birthday' is the mark of a great traveler.''
In the final chapters of ''Stranger in the Forest,'' Mr. Hansen finds himself secretly negotiating against men from the hostile village of Long Uro for a longboat that he can take to the coast. Mr. Hansen knew the Long Uro men still suspected him of being a bali saleng and felt they might kill him in the depths of the jungle. Understandably, he preferred to travel with another group of men from another village on their own ''long journey.''
Securing the longboat was a matter of life and death, of revenge and, in Mr. Hansen's hands, an occasion of some humor.奪回這艘長艇是關乎生死的大事，也是一場復仇，而在漢森先生看來，這也是一件很有趣的事。
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo (1988) is a travel book by American writer Eric Hansen, about a seven-month, 4000 km long journey (of which 2300 km on foot) through the heartland of Borneo in 1982. Hansen became one of the few westerners to walk across the island. He did so largely with the aid of local Penan, who took him away from the rivers, the most used transportation routes in Borneo, to walk through the jungle. The journey started in Marudi in Sarawak, Malaysia, at the northwest coast of the island. When, after an illegal border-crossing, he eventually emerged near the east coast in Kalimantan, Indonesia, the confrontation with western civilisation gave him such a culture shock that he turned around for another crossing of the island.
The book was reviewed in the New York Times (1988) by Deborah Stead who said "Stranger in the Forest is a gracefully written and passionate book that is full of such unexpected delights. It is an account of a strange world made palpable, written with disarming modesty and rare sensitivity."[4] Jack Mathews writing in the Los Angeles Times (1988) criticized Hansen for going native and hunting local wildlife, "A few more fascinated visitors like him and the jungles of Borneo won't be quite so fascinating, to Hansen or anyone else."[5]
In fact, Mr. Hansen mentions the Ridgeway expedition in passing and says that inland people have little desire to act as guides for such groups because they believe ''white people . . . are foolishly obsessed with time and distance regardless of terrain, weather, mood, hunting.'' Rick Ridgeway, who had a corporate sponsor and a fairly inflexible timetable, affirmed the truth of that insight. 「他做到了，」他最後說。
''just as in the highland communities of Borneo an electronic wristwatch that plays 'Happy Birthday' is the mark of a great traveler.''
In the final chapters of ''Stranger in the Forest,'' Mr. Hansen finds himself secretly negotiating against men from the hostile village of Long Uro for a longboat that he can take to the coast. Mr. Hansen knew the Long Uro men still suspected him of being a bali saleng and felt they might kill him in the depths of the jungle. Understandably, he preferred to travel with another group of men from another village on their own ''long journey.''
Securing the longboat was a matter of life and death, of revenge and, in Mr. Hansen's hands, an occasion of some humor.奪回這艘長艇是關乎生死的大事，也是一場復仇，而在漢森先生看來，這也是一件很有趣的事。
: Ben Deighton & Nature Magazine
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