SUMENEP, Indonesia Small-scale fishers in Indonesia’s Masalembu Islands have filed a petition to the government calling for the establishment of an exclusive fishing zone off-limits to larger trawlers that use a controversial type of net that scoops up everything in its path. The Masalembu archipelago is dotted in the Java Ssea between the islands […]
Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and development.
The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) is preparing to establish a low- and medium-level radioactive waste disposal site in Indonesia, which will .
PANTURA, Indonesia More than 10,000 brightly painted trawlers regularly come and go from the rowdy fishing ports along this 1,000-kilometer-long northern coastline of Java, the world’s most populous island. Many of them are going nowhere fast. “Because I still use the cantrang it’s not possible for me to update my paperwork,” said Sutikno, the […]