Indonesia retiree rewilds world’s largest volcano lake as church demands plantation closures

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SAMOSIR, Indonesia — On retirement from public life, Wilmar Eliaser Simandjorang found a quiet place on a hillside overlooking Lake Toba, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, to write about this landscape sacred to the region’s Batak people. “If we don’t pay attention to this, Lake Toba will be just a memory,” Wilmar told Mongabay […]

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