In 2011, a destructive fishing practice known as muroami was banned in Karimunjawa National Park off Indonesia’s Java Island. In 2012-2013, the overall biomass of herbivorous fish species in the park ...

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Fishing communities living on the islands of Indonesia’s Karimunjawa National Park have found an important balance, improving their social well-being while reducing their reliance on marine ...

TEMPO Interactive, Jepara:The Karimunjawa Archipelago is setting up mangrove tracking tourism. For the past four months, the Karimunjawa National Park Board (BTNK) has been building board walks made ...

JAKARTA, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Some Indonesian island communities have found an important balance between social well-being and reduced impacts on marine biodiversity, scientists say. Fishing communities in ...

TEMPO.CO, Semarang - Alam Karimun, a non-government organization focusing on the preservation of the Karimunjawa National Park, Central Java, found that tugboats carrying coal from Kalimantan to Java ...

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After local fishermen in Indonesia’s Karimunjawa National Park unintentionally caught a four-meter-long, juvenile whale shark they became quite concerned. After local fishermen in Indonesia’s ...

An investigation is underway after 127 sharks died at a captive-breeding facility in a marine national park in Indonesia. Experts suspect poor water quality may have triggered the die-off. The ...