The tide, calm but high, laps onto powdered white sand, occasionally rippling as one of the dozen or so black-tip reef sharks cruising the shallows darts at prey. The sea is otherwise silent, but the ...

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In the Raja Ampat islands of eastern Indonesia, pearl farming thrives within a healthy marine ecosystem, with companies like PT Arta Samudra focusing on sustainable practices. Pearl farms are very ...

In recent years, Indonesia has doubled down on promoting Raja Ampat, a remote archipelago in West Papua famed for its biodiversity, as a global eco-tourism icon. In an effort to do so, the government ...

Edy Setyawan has received funding from the Manaaki New Zealand Scholarship - Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) New Zealand, and the WWF Russell E. Train Education for Nature Program (EFN), ...

President Prabowo Subianto was quick to order the revocation of four out of five nickel mining operations in Raja Ampat following major outcry over the possible destruction of the world-renowned ...

An investigation by Greenpeace Indonesia that unearthed nickel mining in the biodiverse archipelago of Raja Ampat has further exposed a lack of transparency in the supply chain for a transition ...

A new environmental report warns that expanding nickel mining is placing Raja Ampat’s coral reefs, forests and Indigenous communities under intensifying threat. Using geospatial mapping and field ...