In Indonesia and beyond nature conservation needs independent science

Curr Biol. 2023 Jul 10;33(13):R706-R707. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.068.

¹ Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD 4878, Australia. Electronic address: bill.laurance@jcu.edu.au.
² Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia; Department of Sociology, State University of Jakarta, Jakarta 13220, Indonesia.
³ Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3SZ, UK.
⁴ Borneo Futures, Bandar Seri Begawan BS8111, Brunei Darussalam.
⁵ Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD 4878, Australia.

Abstract

William Laurance and colleagues alert to the dangers of limiting the freedom of conservation science in Indonesia and elsewhwere.