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I did a double-take when I found myself in a eucalypt forest. Almost felt like home rather than Bali.
It didn’t look like a plantation, but I knew there were no eucalypts native to Bali. It took some time to work out what was going on.
These are Eucalyptus urophylla, a species native to the Wallacean islands east of Bali such as Flores and Timor.
They’ve evidently been established here to stabilise the wall of the outer crater, which on the eastern side is steep, a kilometre high and unstable, threatening a number of villages.