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The world’s fourth-largest island is home to 5 percent of the world’s biodiversity with most of it found nowhere else on the planet. But deforestation puts all that at risk.
Meera Dattani is the co-editor of Adventure.com, a freelance writer for Rough Guides, The Telegraph, Travel Weekly and others, and co-author of the 2017 Rough Guide to Cambodia. She loves wildlife adventures, solo travel, exploring emerging destinations, anything nature-related, and, as a second-generation immigrant, returning to her "second homes" of Uganda and India.