West Bali National Park
Coastal rainforest and savanna reserve sheltering an endemic white songbird once down to a handful in the wild.
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About this audio guide
This guide to West Bali National Park follows the Bali myna, an endemic white songbird, down to just six wild birds in 2001, and the trafficking that kept undercutting a breeding center's eighteen years of releases at Tegal Bunder. It traces how villages here and on Nusa Penida turned the tide with their own customary law against trapping the bird, succeeding where fines and rangers hadn't. Listen for a short, harsh chatter overhead as you walk the trail.
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