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Property developers own 80% of Surabaya mangroves
Wahyoe Boediwardhana, The Jakarta Post, Surabaya | Tue, 05/24/2011 5:08 PM Eighty percent of the 2,000 hectares of mangrove forest on Surabaya’s eastern coast now belongs to property developers, while 40 percent is damaged, an NGO reported Tuesday. Surabaya Mangrove House Consortium director Wawan Some said mangrove now covered the area only about four or… Continue reading
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RI conservationist receives award from British royalty
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Fri, 05/13/2011 10:45 AM At a recent ceremony in London hosted by Her Royal Highness Princess Anne, Indonesian conservationist Hotlin Ompusunggu received the 2011 Whitley Award for her conservation work in West Kalimantan. “Dr. Hotlin is a dentist from Alam Sehat Lestari, who received the award from Princess Anne in… Continue reading
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WWF urges govt, businesses to save forests together
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 04/27/2011 10:09 More than 230 million hectares of forested areas across the globe will disappear by 2050 if no action is taken, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) warns. WWF’s Living Forests Report, released Wednesday, calls on policymakers and business entities to unite around a goal of zero net deforestation… Continue reading
I believe we can’t keep fighting for collective action if we don’t start it ourselves. For me, fighting for a sustainable environment begins with something small: eating proportionately. I think about how, throughout human history, the stomach has often been the beginning of all greed. How can we truly talk about controlling global consumption if we can’t even control our own desire to eat everything?
That’s why I’m committing to practicing autophagy daily, limiting my consumption of imported foods, and prioritizing buying local food directly from farmers.
