Conservation

Living Reefs, Under Fire

Coral Reef Alliance - Mon, 02/04/2013 - 13:03

Author: C. Drew Harvell
Source: The New York Times
February 1, 2013

It was hardly a cheerful group that settled onto the flight from Ujung Padang (also known as Makassar, Sulawesi) to Biak, Papua, at 1:30 in the morning, nor that trooped off the plane 2 1/2 hours later. But we snapped awake when we reached the hotel at 5 a.m. to find grass-skirted, bare-chested and head-dressed men gathered in a lovely old Kipling-esque hotel, signaling that we had reached a remote place in the world.

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