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Ayamaru at Maibrat district experiences changing in plant use as a result of people migration and special autonomy practices in West Papua. Some kinds of plant suddenly seldom found and become extinct in the gardens of three villages in Maibrat. The new exotic species of plants take place and become part of people´s life since long time a go. Moreover, access to the road also was affecting people preference on growing species. The research found some species of plants were gone because of people preference.

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Susan Salosa was graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and gained her MA on Geography at 2009 by a scholarship of Ford Foundation. Susan works as a researcher in Ministry of Forestry in Indonesia. Her recently researches are about vulnerability of local people to the climate change and the food security in West Papua.

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