Man-made jungle islands spell extinction for the smallest critters
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 20:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In 1987, the Thai government finished flooding 65 square miles of rainforest to feed a hydroelectric dam. The wide blanket of jungle, chock-full of small mammals, became an inland archipelago comprising more than a hundred tiny islands. Stranded, the smallest of the furry critters are now dying off.