China-backed Sumatran dam threatens the rarest ape in the world
- Written by Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
The plan to build a massive hydropower dam in Sumatra as part of China’s immense Belt and Road Initiative threatens the habitat of the rarest ape in the world, which has only 800 remaining members.
This is merely the beginning of an avalanche of environmental crises and broader social and economic risks that will be provoked by the BRI...