Challenges
Challenges
The new targets for Indonesia are set to address the main challenges facing coastal and marine conservation in Indonesia which are:
- Insensitive development: includes habitat degradation by tourism development, mangrove destruction by aquaculture, species loss by oil pollution, and social changes by displacement of people or artificial changes in trade and the economy;
- Over fishing: which impacts the viability of the target species, alters the food web, causes collateral damage in the form of, for example, trawler destruction of bottom habitats or destructive fishing on coral reefs, and can lead to social problems such as displaced artisanal fishermen;
- Climate change: causes widespread and profound ecosystem changes and has been shown to cause habitat degradation, a particular example being coral bleaching; and
- Pollution: causes serious alteration in the species present and results in human health implication.
