Indonesia is planning to expand its marine protected area coverage to 325,000 square kilometres by the end of this decade, the fisheries ministry says.
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JAKARTA Indonesia plans to expand protection of its seas to cover an area nearly the size of Germany by 2030 and then tripling it by 2045. The country currently has 284,000 square kilometers (110,000 square miles) of marine area under protection, and plans to increase this to 325,000 km2 (125,000 mi2) by the […]
Healthy coral reefs, with their brightly colored corals and bustling schools of fish, are easy to spot underwater. New research into the marine soundscapes of reefs in the Sangkarang Archipelago in Sulawesi, Indonesia, shows they’re easy to hear too for the right algorithm. The study, led by University College London and Zoological Society of […]
RAJA AMPAT, Indonesia Esterlita Jabu says she still remembers the gut-wrenching horror of hearing explosions from blast fishers near the beach where she played as a child with her friends. “Not only you could hear it, but also you could feel the vibrations,” she tells Mongabay during a visit to her village on the […]