Treasures Lost, Floods Abound

Gag Island has an undersea paradise. The diminutive island of 56 square kilometers is one of the hundreds of islets of the Raja Empat archipelago in the Bird's Head region of Irian Jaya. Last year, an expedition called the Marine Rapid Assessment Program discovered 900 coral fish species, 600 kinds of mollusks and 450 coral varieties in the waters of the island, home to around 600 people.

According to researchers with Conservation Internatio

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