Sorong, Ekuatorial – Eager to learn community based fisheries, women of Limalas village, East Misool District had to cross the sea to receive trainings on how to produce abon ikan or fish floss. Members of Koperasi Embun Pagi had to travelled to Alga’e Marine and Fisheries Training Center in Makassar, South Sulawesi to learn on […]
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Activists reject Bangka island mining on World Environment Day 2015
Airmadidi, Ekuatorial – Celebrating World Environment Day 2015, green activists staged a peace rally rejecting iron ore mining in Bangka island, last week. Tunas Hijau Nature Lovers Community along with other communities blasted that mining activities by PT MMP did not bring any welfare to local people. In addition, they also denied claims made by […]
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Government to map out West Papua conservation area
Sorong, Ekuatorial – Despite of its vast ocean areas, Indonesia has only managed to map out three conservation boundaries areas. “Mapping out the boundary of ocean conservation and small islands are very important because they are acknowledged [by the government],” said M. Saefudin of Conservation Area and Fish Type, Ministry of Marine and Fisheries, in […]
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Violations found in Lampung’s community forest
Bandarlampung, Ekuatorial – Officials found violation on community forest practice in Ulubelu subdistrict, Tanggamus district of Lampung recently, where local people planted coffee and other crops instead of hard woods. “If they don’t immediately plant hard wood, it’s possible that their permits will be revoked and be given to other communities suitable to manage the […]
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Solo to turn to incinerator to tackle its waste issue
Solo, Ekuatorial – Due to limited space, Solo administration decided to apply incinerator to deal with its increasing waste volume, said a senior official, last month. “We had planned to use anaerobic digestion and sanitary landfill systems. Unfortunately, there were too many obstacles with those two systems and would not be suitable for Solo,“ said […]
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Manages by private company, clean water is hard to get for Sorong residents
Sorong. Ekuatorial – Despite of being managed by private sector, Sorong residents were still experiencing clean water issues. “No water means trouble. I have to pay [water dues] every month but it never runs. I have already reported it but no responds [from the company]. I haven’t paid the bill for two months because it […]
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Climbers piled up trash in Lawu Mountain
Karanganyar, Ekuatorial – As much as one garbage truck of trash collected by volunteers during their clean up initiative in Mount Lawu, Karanganyar, Central Java, on Sunday (24/5). Around 225 climbers of Paguyuban Pecinta Alam Bersatu, in cooperation with Rescue Karanganyar Emergency, cleaned up Cemoro Kandang hiking trail, consists of four posts, from mineral water […]
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A new fish species found in Papua
Sorong, Ekuatorial – After a long process, a new fish species from Papua, Cirrhilabrus marinda, was finally published in international journals, on early May, said Mark Erdmann, one of its founders recently. “The fish was originally discovered on October 2014, we took pictures to do more research and compare it to similar species, Cirrhilabrus condei. […]
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Land use changes destroy Lampung’s natural resources
Bandarlampung, Ekuatorial – Land use changes to plantation, mining, and ecosystem payment services have led to the collapsed of Lampung’s natural resources, activists said, on Monday (11/5). Novriansyah, manager of Kawan Tani Lampung Project, said that plantation sector had reached 443,118,987 hectares, gold mining had reached 40,000 hectares and ecosystem services such as geothermal had […]