Anyone who doesn’t see a link between saving Indonesia’s—and the world’s—rainforests and providing health care for the underserved has likely not met Kinari Webb. An environmentalist and doctor, the 44-year-old is on a mission to stop the ravaging of the rainforests—often illegally logged by West Borneo villagers to pay costly medical expenses—by building remote-area hospitals and clinics that offer deeply discounted health care.
Webb also started a re-forestation program. She calls the work “saving the rainforest with stethoscopes.” And to help do it, in 2005, she founded the nonprofit group Health in Harmony, located in Portland, Ore. She also co-founded a West Borneo health-care provider, Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI), with her husband, Cam Webb, a rainforest ecology researcher, and Indonesian dentist Hotlin Ompusunggu. The ASRI clinic currently serves 60,000 people.