David Jardine
Southeast Asia-based writer.

“All in all it seems to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got till it is gone.”

—Joni Mitchell

CONSIDER this: in the period 1802-19 the American naturalist Dr. Thomas Horsfield, working for part of the time under the enthusiastic patronage of the British Lieutenant-Governor Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, identified and classified on the Island of Java alone 206 species of birds, 71 of them