Why Hunting For 20-Million-Year-Old Petrified Wood Is So Dangerous In Indonesia

Petrified wood is one of the most sought after materials in the world for both its aesthetic value as furniture and its scientific value as a fossil. But, in Indonesia, miners who risk their lives to dig it up barely make enough to get by.
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[@joshuacox5817]

Thr police should stop doing raids and instead give the workers licenses, make sure the workers are paid better and get medical insurance, and the profits should go to conservation efforts while dendrologists oversee for remarkable specimens or at the very least take records. The landowner doing nothing should not get paid unless the amoint they jave already been oaid go towards the debt the workers would have for buying the land. The workers should be the landowners.

[@skycloud5065]

11:08 😂😂😂😂 the amount I took 😂😂😂😂 I mean it's just old wood 🪵 🤷 😅 😂 the world got more important problems then this shit

[@joshuacox5817]

You missed the part about the landowner doing nothing, the price gouging doesn't help the workers, the government has corrupt raids rather than pay for the workers licenses and doing everything ethically with dendrologists getting access to specimens for study