In the 1980s and early 90s, fish farming thrived in Brebes, on the north coast of Indonesia’s main central island of Java. The industry’s steady growth saw local residents chop down mangrove stands to ...

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Mangroves are known to trap plastic waste and stop it entering the sea, but this defense comes at a high cost to mangrove forests themselves, a new study shows. Researchers working in Indonesia’s ...