Wild Profusion by Celia Lowe - 9780691124629

Wild ProfusionBiodiversity Conservation in an Indonesian Archipelago\nAuthor(s): Celia Lowe\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691124629, 978-0691124629\nSynopsis\nWild Profusion tells the fascinating story of biodiversity conservation in Indonesia in the decade culminating in the great fires of [tel]--a time when the country's environment became a point of concern for social and environmental activists, scientists, and the many fishermen and farmers nationwide who suffered from degraded environments and faced accusations that they were destroying nature. Celia Lowe argues that biodiversity, in 1990s Indonesia, implied a particular convergence of nature, nation, science, and identity that made Indonesians' mapping of the concept distinct within transnational practices of nature conservation at the time. Lowe recounts the efforts of Indonesian biologists to document the species of the Togean Islan.