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On the Lost Hindu Temple Relics in Indonesia

Relics from Hindu temples as old as eighth century from central Java have passed into the hands of privates collectors mainly due to ignorance and official apathy. People of the village sold these relics thinking as old stone in the 80s. Some of the pillars were used by locals to build their houses. Jakarta Post reports During the independence struggle of the 1940s, many temple ruins could be found in the area between Paren hamlet to Sekere Hill in Sidomulyo, Sukirman said.  "We considered them to be just temple ruins and of no value, except as black rocks. The government also didn't take care of them," he said.  As the area became more densely populated, nearly all the temple ruins were tampered with or damaged, and a number of intact statues were bought by middlemen and antique collectors.  What remains are mostly small fragments, such as a statue of a dragon and a turtle, believed to be remnants of the Syiwa temple from the

White Crocodile in India to Have Better Living Conditions

Researchers and wildlife enthusiasts have been raising their concern for sometime over the manner in which the rare white crocodile is kept at the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary in Orissa , India . The female crocodile named ‘gori’ has been kept in a pen at the Dangmal crocodile research center for the past 32 years. The white crocodile was hatched and bred here as part of a conservation program. She has never mated and is the sole white crocodile in captivity in India . Now, the pen is being expanded under the guidance of wildlife researchers. Bhitarkanika National Park, Odisha, is India’s only habitat that is home to albino or white estuarine crocodiles. The crocodile is found in the Bhitarkanika Mangroves, a mangrove swamp which lies in the river delta of the Brahmani, Baitarani, and Dhamra rivers. Gahirmatha Beach lies to the east, and separates the mangroves from the Bay of Bengal.