Meeting the green giant of Sabah

Robin Loveridge describes a spectacular dipterocarp in the latest instalment of the Global Trees Campaign’s ‘Remarkable Trees’ blog series. Like two whirling gyroscopes, a pair of gibbons circled the huge emergent tree. With reckless power and precision, the pair made gravity defying swings in smooth, graceful arcs, as they flew around the tree in faster and faster orbits.…