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Indonesia’s Farwiza Farhan among Ramon Magsaysay awardees for protecting Leuser Ecosystem

Lusia Arumingtyas, Sapariah Saturi 2 Sep 2024

Hold my ointment: Wild orangutan observed healing wound with medicinal plant

Basten Gokkon 14 May 2024

Study challenges use of charismatic wildlife as umbrella species for conservation

Basten Gokkon 20 Apr 2024

Palm oil deforestation persists in Indonesia’s Leuser amid new mills, plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2024

Burn now, pay later: Fines trickle in from Indonesia’s crackdown on forest fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Nov 2023

Palm oil producer mired in legal troubles still razing Sumatran forest

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Jul 2022

More coffee, less gold: Sumatra farmers alarmed over revival of mine project

Junaidi Hanafiah 24 Feb 2022

Groups welcome decline in deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jan 2022
Sumatran rhinos in Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Work starts on new sanctuary for captive breeding of Sumatran rhinos

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2021

Captive breeding of Sumatran rhinos: Where the program stands today

Mongabay 31 Aug 2021

Deforestation of orangutan habitat feeds global palm oil demand, report shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jun 2021

Never too late to save Earth: Q&A with Leuser forest guardian Rudi Putra

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Jun 2021

Video: Doomed or viable? Sumatran rhino captive breeding faces a dilemma

Isabel Esterman 3 Mar 2021

Snare traps decline, but still pose a threat to Leuser’s Sumatran rhinos

Junaidi Hanafiah 13 Nov 2020

Planned road projects threaten Sumatran rhino habitat, experts say

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Oct 2020

Palm oil from Indonesian grower that burned forest is still being sold

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Jun 2020

Poaching in Indonesia’s biodiverse Leuser Ecosystem on the rise amid COVID-19

Junaidi Hanafiah 28 May 2020

Indonesian court cancels dam project in last stronghold of tigers, rhinos

Junaidi Hanafiah 2 Sep 2019

Sumatran rhinos to get a new sanctuary in Leuser Ecosystem

Basten Gokkon 18 Jun 2019

Poachers blamed in second Sumatran elephant death this year

Junaidi Hanafiah 11 Jun 2018

Oil palm firms advance into Leuser rainforest, defying Aceh governor’s orders

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Sep 2017

As Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem faces multiple threats, local resistance grows

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Jul 2017

Local NGOs: Ecosystem services, not orangutans, key to saving Leuser

Colleen Kimmett 4 Jan 2017

Palm oil, mining moratorium declared in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2016

DiCaprio endorses petition to save Sumatra’s last great rainforest

Mongabay.com 7 Apr 2016

DiCaprio won’t be deported over palm oil comments: Indonesian minister

Mongabay.com 4 Apr 2016

Leonardo DiCaprio poses with elephants in Indonesia’s embattled Leuser rainforest

Mongabay.com 29 Mar 2016

Malaysian palm oil giant IOI suspended from RSPO

Mongabay.com 25 Mar 2016

Tiger skins, bones recovered from poachers in Aceh

Junaidi Hanafiah 24 Mar 2016

Aceh citizens ask governor to keep bulldozers out of a crucial rainforest

Junaidi Hanafiah 12 Feb 2016

Aceh citizens sue government to save Leuser Ecosystem

Cory Rogers 22 Jan 2016

Palm oil expands in Aceh

Junaidi Hanafiah 12 Jan 2016

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