Destruction of Ecosystems, Disappearance of Customary Land
Monday, September 23, 2024
The rice paddy development program will sacrifice 1.02 million hectares of customary land in Merauke. It will also annihilate biodiversity.
A FLOCK of black-necked storks (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) took to the sky, scattering and flying away. They seemed disturbed by the shrill sounds of a Yamaha motorcycle and three other bikes. On the scorching afternoon of Wednesday, August 28, the noise from these vehicles disrupted the silence of the eucalyptus (Eucalyptus spp) forests in Wambi village, Okaba District, Merauke, South Papua.
Simon Petrus Balagaize, a former candidate for
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