WORST OF TIMES, BEST OF TIMES

FROM the ‘50s to the ‘90s, we had lived in the worst of times environmentally when we allowed a few powerful loggers to wantonly exploit the 17 million hectares of diptherocarp forest without let up, which saw the massacre of all life forms in a paradise once so rich in biodiversity, in fact the richest on earth per unit area in terms of endemic flora and fauna.