On Java’s Mount Slamet, Two Former Trappers Find New Calling As Bird Protectors

On Java’s Mount Slamet, two former trappers find new calling as bird protectors

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BANYUMAS, Indonesia — As youngsters, Ari and Junianto would clamber over the upland above Sambirata village, gathering sap to glue-trap the birds nesting below Java’s Mount Slamet. “If it gets wet it’ll lose its stickiness, so you’d have to place it during the day,” Junianto, now in his mid-30s, told Mongabay Indonesia as he pressed […]

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