31 December, 2018 – A conservationist’s account of fieldwork in Borneo – starring a bag full of his own poo – packs a powerful message of hope for biodiversity in heavily degraded, yet surprisingly resilient tropical rainforests, winning the 2018 Wildlife Blogger of the Year competition. Destruction of tropical rainforests often seems like a one-track countdown to biodiversity loss, with millions of hectares of forest habitat lost annually to agriculture and logging. In Borneo, 15% of the island’s old-growth forest was lost between 2000 and 2016 alone. But 23-year-old conservationist Gianluca Cerullo’s story shows that biodiversity – from clouded leopards …
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