Wildlife waste

We often spend our holidays in Indonesia and we like your country very much.

We are members of WWF and saw two things on a recent trip to Banda Neira island in Maluku province which were very awful.

We saw that the people there hunt and eat the "cuscus" (phalanger), a very nice, rare and shy animal. Although these animals are under protection of the government, there was nobody ensuring this was enforced.

On the trip back to Ambon we also noticed that the sea was heavily polluted with garbage including plastic, metal, batteries, etc. We think hundreds of kilograms of dangerous and poisonous things are dumped into the sea everyday.

DR. CHIARENTIN SANDRO

Milan, Italy