• Willie Smits
• Biologist and conservationist

• Speaking at TED2009
• February 2009
• Long Beach, CA

A 20-year tale of hope: How we re-grew a rainforest: By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans -- and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems.