Govt Drafts Biodiversity Law

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The government is set to draft a biodiversity law to protect wildlife in Indonesia. Data from the Indonesian Science Institute (LIPI) in 2014 reveals that Indonesia boats more than 47,000 species of plants and animals.

“However, only 236 of them are protected,” Indra Exploitasia Semiawan, head of Genetic Resources Sub-directorate at the Environment and Forestry Ministry, said during a discussion of biodiversity conservation draft bill exports held in Jakarta on Tuesday, January 12, 2016.

Source: http://en.tempo.co/read/news/2016/01/13/206735562/Govt-Drafts-Biodiversity-Law