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Lush forests seen at the Southern Cardamom project, which protects 497,000 ha of tropical rainforest in South-west Cambodia.

Lush forests seen at the Southern Cardamom project, which protects 497,000 ha of tropical rainforest in South-west Cambodia.

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SINGAPORE - When grey whales hunt, they scrape the ocean floor with their jaws, filtering out tiny crustaceans from the sediment with their baleen. In the process, they stir up a bounty of nutrients, unleashing resources long buried in the seafloor for other creatures. 

Animals like the grey whale are ecosystem engineers – species that exert an outsized impact on their environments – due to their ability to create, modify and even destroy a habitat. 

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