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A plan to save Bali’s lost fireflies

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A plan to save Bali’s lost fireflies

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Mongabay reports the following. EcoBriefing is republishing it as an attributed briefing, not as independently confirmed fact. If this item is false or incomplete, the responsibility sits with Mongabay, which released it. 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, pesticide use, and climate […] Original link: https://news.mongabay.com/video/2026/09/a-plan-to-save-balis-lost-fireflies/

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