A Path Towards Oblivion

Mining activities are threatening tidal coral reefs. Conflicts between officials and local people are becoming ever more frequent.

August 19, 2008

A PICTURE of the Raja Ampat island group in West Papua is printed on black T-shirts. Other T-shirts worn by Conservation International Indonesia officials display an aerial photograph the islands. Both T-shirts have the same message printed on them: ‘World Heritage or World Auction?’

The T-shirts, which were designed by an alliance of non-government organizations (NGOs) called the Papua Bird’s Head Regional NGO Cooperative Forum (Foker LSM

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