{"id":884,"date":"2015-04-23T15:56:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T15:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=884"},"modified":"2015-04-23T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T15:56:04","slug":"losing-the-forest-in-papua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"Losing the forest in Papua"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-885\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/in-sight\/wp\/2015\/04\/08\/deforestation-amid-papuas-fragile-ecosystem\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-885 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/papua1.jpg\" alt=\"papua1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/papua1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/papua1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/papua1-199x133.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Eko\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Papua New Guinea is the second largest island in the world. It is inhabited by diverse tribes that depend on nature to provide them with food and medicine. In ecological terms, the island has a rich array of botanical and animal species.\u00a0Yet, as in the other parts of the world, global industry has started to penetrate remote areas of Papua New Guinea.\u00a0Many critics believe deforestation, industrial agriculture, mining and other mineral exploitation are major threats to the rich biodiversity in Papua New Guinea.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_886\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-886\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/in-sight\/wp\/2015\/04\/08\/deforestation-amid-papuas-fragile-ecosystem\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-886 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/papua2.jpg\" alt=\"papua2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/papua2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/papua2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/papua2-199x133.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Eko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Photojournalist Michael Eko Hardianto traveled to the island in late 2014 and early 2015 to conduct research along the Bird\u2019s Head Peninsula, specifically the South Sorong Regency in the West Papua province of Indonesia. There, much of the natural biodiversity remains. (By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/nicole-crowder\">Nicole Crowder<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/in-sight\/wp\/2015\/04\/08\/deforestation-amid-papuas-fragile-ecosystem\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/in-sight\/wp\/2015\/04\/08\/deforestation-amid-papuas-fragile-ecosystem\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/michaeleko.com\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Eko<\/a><\/span> is a documentary photographer from Jakarta, Indonesia who\u00a0studied Journalism at Atma Jaya University, Yogyakarta. His work was shown in magazines such as\u00a0National Geographic Traveler Indonesia, Asian Geographic and South East Asia Globe and he is a founding member of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/cephasphotoforum.org\" target=\"_blank\">Cephas Photo Forum<\/a><\/span>, a discussion forum about photography in Yogyakarta.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Papua New Guinea is the second largest island in the world. It is inhabited by diverse tribes that depend on nature to provide them with food and medicine. In ecological terms, the island has a rich array of botanical and animal species.\u00a0Yet, as in the other parts of the world, global industry has started to &#8230; <a title=\"Losing the forest in Papua\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=884\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber Losing the forest in Papua\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}