Dr.
Kinari Webb ‘95 opened a primary care health clinic in a remote
corner of Borneo this summer. Her appointment book has been full ever
since.
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Words and pictures By Oakley brooks
At her new rural health clinic, Dr. Kinari Webb
’95 doesn’t give the Indonesian villagers health
care for free. Instead,they pay for it by
working to save the national park nearby.
Gunung Palung National Park,
in the south- west reaches of the Indonesian section
of Borneo, tumbles from a cloud-forested ridge of volcanoes
at 3,700 feet down through old-growth hardwoods to mangrove
swamps that line the Java Sea. It hosts one of Indonesia’s
largest populations of the wide-ranging and highly endangered
orangutan. While much of the lowland forest in the park
has been hacked by illegal loggers, at dusk it’s still possible
for swimmers and fishermen along the coast to hear the
deep-throated cries of monkeys and gibbons in the tall
trees nearby.
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