A plan to save Bali’s lost fireflies

Mongabay
Sep 26, 2026, 5:53 am94 ptsTrending
BALI — Indonesia. Wayan Wardika used to see “clouds of fireflies” as a child growing up among the rice fields of Bali, Indonesia. But 40 years later, he realized that the fireflies in his village had all but disappeared. Fireflies in Southeast Asia are vanishing due to habitat loss, light pollution,…

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