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Mist and Mystery: The Dayak

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Early morning view of a primary growth forest in East Kalimantan, Borneo. Image by Kent Wagner. Indonesia, 2016.
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Borneo's ecological devastation involves logging, mining, palm oil cultivation, habitat loss, and...

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Wildlife in Borneo's rainforests face the same challenges as its indigenous people, the Dayak. Screenshot from Kent Wagner's "Mist and Mystery: The Dayak". Indonesia, 2016.
Wildlife in Borneo's rainforests face the same challenges as its indigenous people, the Dayak. Screenshot from Kent Wagner's 'Mist and Mystery: The Dayak'. Indonesia, 2016.

Deforestation in Borneo isn't just damaging the region's ecosystem and negatively impacting climate change, it is also changing the Dayak way of life. An indigenous people who have relied on the Bornean rainforests for millennia, the Dayak are having to adapt to decreasing rainforest resources and must increasingly alter their way of life.

In this video Kent Wagner follows the Dayak on their daily treks to show how their lives are changing due to Borneo's vanishing forests.

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