In Java’s hills, former bird hunters are rebuilding a songbird haven

Mongabay
Aug 27, 2026, 6:29 am96 pts
PURWOREJO, Indonesia — As a young man, Parman hunted songbirds here in the Menoreh Hills, a landscape of karst valleys near the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta. The area is now a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, but back then Parman would raid nests for rare birds, taking fledglings before they had learned to fly,…

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