Trees

Although we are surveying for rhinos, we aren’t exactly tripping over them on a daily basis. Trees are the things we see the most. We trip over the ones we don’t see. Most trees are fairly ho hum, although Junaidi opened our eyes a little and we can now identify two tree families (some of the time). I now know that this is a very large Dipterocarp:

This tree is far from run of the mill – it has been climbed by a bear!

Before we began the survey, people who had been to the study site had told us all about the vast expanses of rattan and bamboo. But very few of them mentioned the ridges which had not been sprayed by so much defoliant, where beautiful broadleaved evergreen forest remains.

I can’t think of much to say about these last few pictures, so just look at the pretty trees.