Ever-increasing swathes of virgin forest are being felled to provide cultivation space for biofuel crops.
In Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, once-vast stands of virgin forest are gone.
An alternative idea is that the greater diversity of amphibian species in virgin forest helps the fungus to spread.
He managed to stop the cutting of virgin forest (and the destruction of golden monkey habitat) in Yunnan province.
The village is essentially surrounded by virgin forest and has no well water and therefore is reliant on the Xingu River for drinking and cooking.
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Hundreds of acres of virgin forest will be inundated with water in order to build the reservoir to power the turbines that will generate electricity.
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Some conservationists are cautiously enthusiastic about the new trees, reckoning that it is better that they be cultivated than that the last stands of virgin forest be felled.
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Nevertheless, there is a risk that the scheme, by making it easier to get secure title for dubious land claims, might somehow stimulate demand for virgin forest land, not damp it.
Its six villages are cut off from the rest of the country, except for a single mountain road that runs through a broad belt of virgin forest that forms part of the Swiss National Park.
When Belo gets built, around 20, 000 will have to relocate, hundreds of acres of virgin forest will be flooded, and the Amazon tributary, the Xingu River, will be diverted to feed the turbines that will potentially generate 11, 200 megawatts of electricity if all goes swimmingly well.
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In the main Beijing office, a homely red-painted house in a courtyard littered with bicycles, visitors would be handed staff cards printed on recycled paper and given metal reusable chopsticks, together with a lecture on how much of China's virgin forest was disappearing for wooden chopsticks every year.
It is hard now to believe that in 1902 a tiger was shot under the billiard table (that the big cat emerged from a circus rather than virgin rain-forest, and was shot by a school headmaster, makes the story no less exotic).
The maps show, in dark green, Indonesia's virgin jungle and, in a lighter shade, the secondary forest which, in many places, surrounds it.
Sino-Forest runs its business through 58 holding companies incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.
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The boss of the Virgin business empire owns two of the smaller British Virgin Islands (BVI), and planned to have lemurs living in the forest on one of them, Moskito (also Mosquito) Island.
It is also home to a large swath of virgin rainforest and Belo will be built along the Xingu River, smack dab in the middle of that forest.
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