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Govt prioritizes changing public mindset on reducing land degradation

The government has channeled its efforts to change the public outlook in preventing environmental degradation, ...

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Development of Indonesia-European Union partnership By Yuni Arisandy

Indonesia and the European Union (EU) have developed relations across a wide spectrum of areas in the space of a few ...

Year Ender - Preserving coral reefs means protecting livelihoods in coastal region by Fardah Assegaf

Indonesian waters occupy at least 70 percent of its national territory, and in most parts of the country, there are ...

COREMAP establishes coral monitoring professional certification

The Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program (COREMAP) has, over the past two decades, established four ...

Indonesia concerns about live reef fish trade

Indonesian Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Susi Pudjiastuti has expressed concern about the issue of ...

EU supports Indonesia to realize sustainable palm oil

The European Union (EU) supports Indonesia`s efforts to achieve the target of 100 percent sustainable palm oil by ...

Banyuwangi designated as national geopark

The National Geopark Committee has officially designated Banyuwangi District in East Java Province as one of the 2018 ...

News Feature - Time for central, local governments to maintain Raja Ampat`s cleanliness

Raja Ampat has 553 coral reef species, constituting 75 percent of the world`s coral reef biodiversity, and over a ...

Sumatran rhino saved from pit trap in E Kalimantan

A female Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) was rescued from a pit trap near Tunuq River basin area in ...

Up to 145 whales die after mass stranding in New Zealand

Up to 145 pilot whales died in a mass stranding on a remote New Zealand island at the weekend, authorities said on ...

Indonesia among top 25 countries in food sustainability index

Minister of Agriculture Amran Sulaiman stated here on Monday that Indonesias agriculture was included among the top 25 ...

WWF releases exclusive summary on Borneo on World Environment Day

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Indonesia and Malaysia released an exclusive publication of "The Environmental Status of ...

Indonesia becomes global model for peatland restoration: UNEP

Indonesia is the worlds model for restoring peatlands, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). ...

Coral reefs in Sawu Sea cover 63,339 hectares

The Head of East Nusa Tenggara Provinces Environment Office, Benyamin Lola, stated that various studies have revealed ...

Biotech/GM crops surge to a new peak of 185.1 million hectares in 2016

- Today, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) released its annual report ...