Alex Shoumatoff is the editor of Dispatches from The Vanishing World, which is devoted to documenting, celebrating, and making people aware of the planet's fast-disappearing biocultural diversity. He is a longtime contributor to The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Smithsonian, Outside, Rolling Stone, and other magazines. His eleventh book, The Wasting of Borneo: Dispatches From A Vanishing World, has just been published.