Indonesia’s fish farm expansion to absorb D.C.-sized swath of protected forests

via news.mongabay.com

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WEST JAVA, Indonesia – A billion-dollar push to expand fish farming on the island of Java to support Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s free school meals program will absorb protected forests nearly the size of Washington, D.C., according to the country’s largest environmental group. “This area would become one of the largest releases of protected forests […]

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