conservation
At least ten tons of plastic and cans waste produced by Bogor Botanical Garden every year. Lack of people’s awareness and increasing visitors resulted to piling up waste in the site.
Institute of Critical Zoologist (ICZ) revealed at least 350 new species unidentified in the relatively new island, Pejantan Island.
At least 14 out of 26 komodo dragon eggs hatched at Taman Safari Indonesia, Cisarua, Bogor, from Rangga (male) and Rinca (female), up to March 5, 2017.
The Global Mangrove Alliance aimed to set up a global cooperation to optimize the experiences, funds, knowledge, resources, and diverse sets of skills to increase awareness on the importance of mangrove as coastal ecosystem.
Indonesian Botanical Garden Foundation (YKRI) has been encouraging to extend the roles of botanical gardens in Indonesia, for not just limited to research purposes.
Out of 77 conservation institutions in Indonesia, only 31 had been accredited prompting the need to speed up the process to avoid bad management practice.
Of seven turtle species in the world, Indonesia has six of them, unfortunately, all facing threats.
Protection Forest and Fauna (Profauna) launched ‘Don’t Buy Primate’ campaign to increase people’s awareness on the species in Indonesia.
East Java Natural Resources Conservation Agency announced Javan banteng (Bos Javanicus) had been declining for the past four years, between 2013-2016, after monitoring in three areas.
Easy to find in shallow waters and center of tourist attraction, epaulette sharks or walking sharks in Indonesia is facing serious threats.
The finding of a finless porpoise in Kubu Raya waters, of Padang Tikar subdistrict, West Kalimantan province, had added the marine biodiversity importance to the area.
Indonesia reluctantly accepted pangolin trade ban in Asia as proposed at Convention International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), in South Africa, recently.
Senior official on Tuesday (20/9) blamed on lack of data input of Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) which pushed the species to Critically Endangered at IUCN Red List.