China Dams the World
Just last year in 2017 a group of local Indonesian and international scientists introduced the newest great ape to the world, the Tapanuli orangutan, or Pongo tapanuliensis. This sub-species of the Sumatran orangutan is found only in two forest blocks southwest of Lake Toba on the island of Sumatra in an area called Batang Toru.
[…]Hydrolancang International Energy Company is reportedly the prime candidate to build a massive 18km-long dam on the Mekong River in Cambodia at Sambor in Kratie province, a dam that, according to a leaked report, would for all practical purposes kill the Mekong. That millions of poor, rural Cambodians rely on fish from the Mekong for their protein—and that it’s essentially a free source of protein—mean nothing to Hydrolancang.
