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Scientists Argue Conservation Is under Threat in Indonesia

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Scientific American

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4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Researchers have been banned from working in Indonesia’s tropical rain forests after the government disagreed with their scientific conclusions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Indonesia's more than 17,000 islands contain the largest expanse of tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia,

0:48.8

and they're teeming with biodiversity.

0:51.5

These forests are just incredibly rich. Conservation scientist Eric Mayard has worked for more

0:57.4

than three decades in these forests. He heads up the scientific consulting company Borneo Futures.

1:03.2

Of course, it's hot and sweaty and humid, but there's so much diversity in these forests. There's

1:09.0

bird calls everywhere. Everywhere you look, you see life.

1:16.2

Bill Lawrence is a tropical ecologist at James Cook University in Australia. The forests are just festooned

1:22.3

with plants and animals and birds and everything just chirping away and, you know, it's just this giant

1:28.4

bastion of life.

1:30.4

That life is on the brink because Lawrence says Indonesia has an incredible concentration of the

1:36.0

world's endangered and critically endangered species.

1:38.9

Sort of an incredible magical place on one sense, but it's also a place that's greatly

1:43.7

imperiled right now.

1:45.1

And then there's another sort of peril, one facing the scientists who do conservation work there.

1:50.2

That's the topic of a recent letter Lawrence and Mayard published in the journal Current Biology.

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