Ranger's Receipt
Misool, Raja Ampat · Indonesia
ONE RIDICULOUSLY GOOD ADVENTURE
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- 18rangers on patrol, funded
- 1,000+patrols a year
- 121,400 hano-take zone kept wild — a reserve you'd need four days to cross
- 3½ fishnow, where there was one, in 2007
- ~3×as many sharks as in 2012
- ✓once dynamite-fished, now Indonesia's largest no-take zone
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TOTAL: You went. The reef won.
Fish biomass up 248% from 2007–2021 — roughly 3.5x the original. Sharks up 190% since 2012 — roughly 3x. 121,400 hectares, Indonesia's largest no-take marine zone, patrolled by 18 rangers on 1,000+ patrols a year. Source: Misool Foundation reef monitoring,
https://www.misoolfoundation.org/misool-marine-reserve