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By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — Tri Atmoko is a regular visitor to the mangrove forests of Balikpapan Bay on the east coast of Indonesian Borneo, where he studies proboscis monkeys, an endangered species best known for its comically large nose. He’d last gone there in 2022, he tells Mongabay recently. On his return this past June, areas of mangrove trees that were still intact before had now disappeared. “I found many new developments,” says Tri, a primatologist with Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), a government body. “I observed numerous logistic ports being constru…

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