Mar 24, 2010

Half of Indonesia's mangroves gone in less than thirty years

The Jakarta Post reports that, according to the local NGO People's Coalition for Justice in Fisheries (Kiara), Indonesia's has lost 2.2 million hectares of mangroves in less than thirty years, going from covering 4.2 million hectares in 1982 to just 2 million hectares today.
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