On his expansive piece of forest, he could enjoy a ranch life that Michael Jackson might envy.
"It's the most heavily studied piece of forest in the world".
The owner, Feliciano Miguel Abdalla, bought the plantation in 1944 and set aside this small piece of forest in a private reserve.
Conversely, in some tropical countries, landless individuals turn up, cut down a piece of forest they do not own, and squat on it.
And when you lay down on them you might almost be in Mr Anderson's 86-acre piece of forest near Atlanta, listening to the sparrows in the long-leaf pines, rejoicing in being a non-harming part of the web of life, like him.
In October 2012 a piece of forest near the capital, Paramaribo, was being cleared and Monique was asked to remove 14 sloths.
The decay rate of any individual piece of forest dead wood is determined by substrate quality, microbial activity, air temperature, and available moisture [5].
Ecologically, the goal is to connect the dots - to join the still-forested fragments in the area north of Rio, known as the Tingua-Bocaina Biodiversity Corridor, in order to provide a piece of forest and a wildlife habitat big enough to form a meaningful ecosystem.
The decay rate of any individual piece of forest dead wood is determined by substrate quality, microbial activity, air temperature, and available moisture [ 5].
