A billion-dollar hydroelectric dam development in Indonesia that threatens the habitat of the world’s rarest great ape has sparked fresh concerns about the impact of China’s globe-spanning infrastructure drive, Agence-France Presse reports. The World Wildlife Fund cited over 1,700 critical biodiversity spots in Asia that China’s so-called Belt and Road initiative will directly impact, endangering 265 threatened species such as saiga antelopes, tigers and giant pandas. According to some analysts, the Belt and Road, while it poses new and grave environmental threats to all of Asia and beyond, if managed properly and responsibly, could also offer extraordinary opportunities for green growth, writes Giovanni Ortolani for Mongabay.