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Borneo: A Wonderland of Intriguing (And Newly Discovered!) Flora and Fauna

Rafflesia is the biggest flower on earth, but it smells like dead meat

Borneo is home to one of the world’s oldest rainforests, which is no surprise why Sabah, one of its provinces, is hotly contested between Malaysia and the Philippines. (Where there are ancient forests there are ancient swamps, and where there are ancient swamps, there is natural gas, but that is another story.) From an ecological […]

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