image: Rajjaprabha Dam provides the majority of electricity in Surat Thani and neighboring provinces in southern Thailand, but at a cost: 165 square kilometers of rainforest -- formerly habitat used by tigers, Asian elephants, tapirs, gibbons and other fauna -- are now under the waters of Chiew Larn Reservoir. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 27 September, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Luke Gibson at National University of Singapore in Singapore, and colleagues was titled, "Near-Complete Extinction of Native Small Mammal Fauna 25 Years After Forest Fragmentation." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of Stuart Kirkland]