Green Indonesia: Tropical forest encounters

by Ilsa Sharp

Tropical rainforests, covering only 7 per cent of the earth's land surface, are the world's oldest ecosystem and house over 50% of all plant and animal species. The Indonesian archipelago contains over 10% of the world's total rainforest area, housing over 4000 species of tree, 500 different mammals, and 1500 bird species. This beautiful and lavishly illustrated book is a celebration of Indonesia's unique and diverse rainforests - their ecology, biological diversity, and habitants.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1994

About the author

Ilsa Sharp is a British-born freelance writer and specialist in SE Asian affairs, with a Chinese Studies honours degree from Leeds University. She has built up a strong track record for current affairs and economics/business reporting, writing and editing, as well as environment/nature/wildlife/popular science over her long career as a journalist and author, based in Singapore/Hong Kong/Australia and including extensive travel throughout the Asia-Pacific region, since 1968. She was a Hong Kong-based ‘China-watcher’ for the Far Eastern Economic Review in the 1970s, and among the first foreign journalists to travel in and report from China towards the end of the Cultural Revolution, in 1971.

Ms Sharp also has a parallel track record of public relations copy-writing and consultancy, both for business corporations and for government. She has specialised in commissioned institutional, corporate and government history books.