Is there a plant growing deep in the heart of the Borneo rainforest that can cure cancer? According to the WWF, plants with the potential to help treat or cure cancer have been found there. But, we may never benefit from the healing plants found and plants yet to be discovered, because the rainforest is being destroyed by the greed of illegal logging.

In a report called Biodiscoveries, Borneo's Botanical Secret, scientists are currently testing samples in the hope of developing drugs that could treat cancer. For example, an Australian pharmaceutical company is studying a promising anti-cancer substance from a shrub found in the rainforest. A compound present in the plant Aglaia leptantha has been found to effectively kill 20 kinds of human cancer cells in laboratory tests, including those that cause brain and breast cancer, and melanoma. Right now, it's a race to see how much of the rainforest can be saved from those who can only see the immediate profit in logging and lumber sales. Honest to goodness, can I suggest cob construction? Once the rainforests are gone, they are gone. So too, the healing secrets that grow there.