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A marine protected area in Indonesia’s Southeast Sulawesi province is home to a critically depleted population of humphead wrasse. The species presence helped the area gain its protected status, but ...
News Indonesia » Southeast Sulawesi » Life: Some members of the Buton tribe in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia are born with naturally bright blue eyes
Some members of the Buton tribe in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia are born with naturally bright blue eyes - a rare sight in Southeast Asia where most people have deep brown eyes. This striking eye ...
News Indonesia » Southeast Sulawesi » Life: Only 22 Napoleon fish remain in Indonesia protected bay ringed by mining permits
Indonesia coral reef mining conservation: a government survey found just 22 napoleon fish alive in Moramo Bay, a 21,902-hectare marine conservation zone in Southeast Sulawesi ringed by 12 limestone ...
News Indonesia » Southeast Sulawesi » Life: On remote Indonesia karst outpost, Indigenous farmers fear the silence of the yams
If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Banggai archipelago is a remote landscape of around 97% limestone karst east of Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island. Extractive concessions on 39 ...
News Indonesia » Southeast Sulawesi » Life: Humanity's oldest known cave art has been discovered in Sulawesi
Cave art in Sulawesi, Indonesia, has been dated to at least 67,800 years ago, making it the oldest securely dated cave art known. This predates European examples by over 30,000 years and indicates ...
News Indonesia » Southeast Sulawesi » Life: This Remote Indonesian Island Has Some of the Healthiest Coral Reefs in the World — and Helped Me Rediscover My Love of Scuba Diving
It’s 7:30 A.M. on January 27, and I’m at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, about to board a chartered flight. It will land two hours later at the private airstrip on Tomia, an island ...
News Indonesia » Southeast Sulawesi » Life: Magnitude 6.7 quake hits Indonesia's Sulawesi island, agency says
JAKARTA, June 16 (Reuters) - An earthquake of 6.7 magnitude struck Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Tuesday, with the epicentre recorded about 42 kilometres (26.1 miles) to the southeast of the town ...
News Indonesia » Southeast Sulawesi » Life: Humanity’s oldest known cave art has been discovered in Sulawesi
When we think of the world’s oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often seen as evidence this was the birthplace of symbolic human culture. But new ...