Conserving Tradition Saving Forests
The Long Road to Legality
Two villages in Lampung province applied to be part of the Lestari Sustainable Community Forest System. This practice ensures that while forests can be profitable, they should be managed sustainably.
Zahari, 52, can still remember the 1997 event in the village of Hurun in Lampung. He had just left his house to work on his garden, some 100 meters away when he saw billows of smoke and and heard the whizzing of bullets, coming from the direction of his house.
January 31, 2017
The Long Road to Legality
Two villages in Lampung province applied to be part of the Lestari Sustainable Community Forest System. This practice ensures that while forests can be profitable, they should be managed sustainably.
Zahari, 52, can still remember the 1997 event in the village of Hurun in Lampung. He had just left his house to work on his garden, some 100 meters away when he saw billows of smoke and and heard the whizzing of bullets,
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