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Indonesia is one of the most ecologically remarkable places on Earth. Its 17,000 islands span a territory so biologically rich — from the Coral Triangle’s reefs to the deep-water channels of the Banda Sea — that scientists are still mapping what lives here. It is a place where the world's largest animal migrates through waters barely charted, where critically endangered great apes live in lush rainforests and birds of paradise flaunt world-famous plumage.

Yet Indonesia also faces significant habitat loss , putting this irreplaceable biodiversity under constant pressure.…