How to restore a rainforest – Willie Smits
By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits believes he has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans — and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems. UPDATE: December 2012: The core content of this talk has been challenged on a number of grounds. For details, and for Willie Smits’ response to these criticisms, please see this page: https://www.ted.com/pages/791
Talk by Willie Smits.



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