Since the crash of the Southeast Asian currency in 1998, times have been hard for Malaysia.  There has been little construction.  People who sell earthmoving equipment and trucks have gone out of business.  Building contractors have no work, and the people  hired to do the labor have no money for food and shelter.  The ripple effect is seen throughout the entire nation.

A construction contractor would greatly benefit from the investors getting together the money to build the bridge, road and lodge.  Some primary rain forest will be eliminated, and some of the animals and plants that live there will be moving elsewhere,or maybe even disappear.  But what is more important, a wild ginger plant or a human being?  The number of people being employed to work on this project would receive money they need to support themselves and their families.

Corporations in the rain forests http://www.ran.org/info_center/factsheets/04f.html

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