Mulling Over Coral Reefs
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
MINI sandbanks reaching the height of an adult’s waist stood along several lines of Jamursba Medi Beach, north of the Bird’s Head zone, West Papua. When the banks disappear and the beach is again sloping, the egg-laying season for leatherback turtles is at its peak. “The banks arise from annual abrasion, which will again be sloping,” said a conservation activist of World Wildlife Fund Indonesia, Aulia Rahman. Consequently, the white-sand
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