On Java’s Mount Slamet, two former trappers find new calling as bird protectors

Mongabay
Aug 31, 2025, 11:13 am327 ptsTrendingTop
BANYUMAS, Indonesia — As youngsters, Ari and Junianto would clamber over the upland above Sambirata village, gathering sap to glue-trap the birds nesting below Java’s Mount Slamet. “If it gets wet it’ll lose its stickiness, so you’d have to place it during the day,” Junianto, now in his mid-30s,…

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