Image 02 - INDONESIA: THE MAHAKAM DELTA Spot Scene KJ 303/351 Dated 30/03/1998

Samarinda area,East Kalimantan,Borneo Island (Kalimantan Island), Indonesia

Same area as Image 1, taken 6 years later (Image 1 was taken in 1992, and this was taken in 1998.) Six-year interval shows the magnitude of conversion of mangrove forest to shrimp ponds in the Mahakam delta. Eighty percent of the mangrove forests of the delta are degraded or converted.

Prepared by Ms. Marie Aizpuru, and provided by Prof. François Blasco, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Terestre(LET), Toulouse, France, for ISME Credit: Laboratoire d' Ecologie Terestre (LET)