In recent years, Bali has been called the trash island in the world after a British diver recorded himself in one of the island’s most iconic dive spots fully surrounded in plastics. In December 2017, the Balinese Government even declared a trash emergency. With 80 percent of plastic pollution in our oceans coming from rivers […]
By Taufik Wijaya The planned construction of a bridge and private port in southern Sumatra threatens to damage one of the last remaining habitats of the island’s critically endangered elephants. The project is part of the South Sumatra provincial government’s tourism development drive, under which it plans to build a bridge from the Sumatran mainland […]
By Hans Nicholas Jong Indonesia’s president has made permanent a temporary moratorium on forest-clearing permits for plantations and logging. It’s a policy the government says has proven effective in curtailing deforestation, but whose apparent gains have been criticized by environmental activists as mere “propaganda.” Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said President Joko Widodo […]
EcoWatch teamed up with sustainability activist and Instagram influencer Margarita Samsonova via Facebook Live to give you the tools you need to make a massive impact on this planet through volunteer work. Here are five steps including valuable “pro-tips” to get you on your way to a life-changing experience as a volunteer abroad. 1.Imagine Your […]
By Joe Sandler Clarke “Don’t expect us to continue buying European products,” Malaysia’s former plantations minister Mah Siew Keong told reporters in January last year. His comments came just after he had accused the EU of “practising a form of crop apartheid.” A few months later Luhut Pandjaitan, an Indonesian government minister close to President […]
The world’s largest palm oil trader released plans on Monday to increase its efforts to eliminate deforestation from its supply chain. Wilmar International, which supplies 40 percent of the world’s palm oil, has teamed up with the sustainability consultancy Aidenvironment Asia to develop a comprehensive mapping database to better monitor the company’s palm oil supplier […]
Yet another whale has suffered from plastic pollution. A sperm whale that washed up dead in a national park in Indonesia had nearly 13 pounds of plastic waste in its stomach, park officials told the Associated Press. Researchers from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the park’s conservation academy uncovered more than 1,000 other pieces […]
With only 68 individuals left on the planet, the Javan rhino is the world’s most threatened rhino species. So you can image the surprise when a team from Global Wildlife Conservation and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) saw one of these incredible creatures wallowing in the mud in Indonesia’s Ujung Kulon National Park, the only place […]
Another tragedy struck Indonesia Friday when heavy rains triggered flash flooding and mudslides that killed at least 27 in Sumatra, ABC reported. The most devastating casualties occurred when mudslides inundated an Islamic school in Muara Saladi village, sweeping up 29 children. Villagers managed to rescue 17 children and some teachers, but 11 bodies were discovered […]
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