"As you can see by the vegetation surrounding us, this plan was spectacularly successful," says biologist Dr Sam Weber, standing wreathed in fog amid a mini cloud forest of dripping ficus trees, bamboo, ginger and guava that envelops Green Mountain today. We are a few minutes' drive from the sweltering lava plains, but up here it's mild and breezy.

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