North sumatra News

RSS
135 stories

‘Stop the stupidity’: Indonesia’s top court orders end to mine in quake zone

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Sep 2024
Efron spending the night in a forest hut.

A one-time illegal logger grows back a forest for his people in Sumatra

Barita News Lumbanbatu 30 Aug 2024

Indonesia expands IPLC land recognition — but the pace is too slow, critics say

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2024
Ilham Mahmudi

Unrest and arrests in Sumatra as community fights to protect mangroves

Ayat S. Karokaro 5 Jun 2024

Study challenges use of charismatic wildlife as umbrella species for conservation

Basten Gokkon 20 Apr 2024

Norway pension fund breaks with U.K. conglomerate Jardines over endangered orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2024

Indonesian gold mine expanding in ‘wrong direction’ into orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Mar 2024

Bid to mitigate gold mine’s impact on orangutans hit by stonewalling, data secrecy

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Feb 2024

Newly described tree species from Sumatra could be vital for threatened orangutans

Liz Kimbrough 28 Dec 2023
Dairi residents stood in solidarity with farmers and called for the rescue of Dairi from the zinc and lead mines.

Sumatra women farmers celebrate court win against China-backed zinc mine

Rabul Sawal 16 Aug 2023

World’s top sovereign fund latest to cut ties with dam in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jul 2023
A worker in an oil palm plantation.

Alleged torturers roam free as Indonesia struggles to bring charges in palm oil slavery case

Mongabay.com 21 Jun 2023
A long-tailed macaque.

Sumatra’s young primate whisperer brings bullhorn to macaque conservation

Barita News Lumbanbatu 5 Jun 2023

High-carbon peat among 1,500 hectares cleared for Indonesia’s food estate

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Apr 2023

Meet the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 24 Apr 2023

World’s newest great ape faces habitat loss, multiple threats: Will it survive?

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Apr 2023

Orangutan death in Sumatra points to human-wildlife conflict, illegal trade

Ayat S. Karokaro, Sri Wahyuni 6 Mar 2023

In Sumatra, increased orangutan sightings point to growing threats to the apes

Hans Nicholas Jong, Tonggo Simangunsong 1 Mar 2023
Local women participating in the economic value conservation activities.

Failed mangrove tourism project in Sumatra highlights need for community collaboration

Barita News Lumbanbatu 16 Feb 2023
Sanjiv is a male Sumatran tiger who has arrived at a captive breeding center in Tacoma, Washington. Photo by Katie Cotterill for Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Sanjiv.

Sumatran tiger arrives at Tacoma captive-breeding program

Jeremy Hance 6 Jan 2023

Tunnel collapse at dam project in orangutan habitat claims yet another life

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Nov 2022

Labor groups seek to build on Indonesian palm oil court win in new cases

Grace Dungey 3 Oct 2022

Education can change local perception of bats, help conserve species, study says

Sean Mowbray 12 Sep 2022

China-backed mine in Indonesia poses high risk, World Bank watchdog warns

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Aug 2022
Sakiah in her garden.

Urban farming in Indonesia addresses food needs and climate crisis

Sri Wahyuni 24 Aug 2022

‘Cursed’ dam project in orangutan habitat claims 16th life in less than 2 years

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Aug 2022
Fishermen haul their catch from the boat.

In Sumatra, rising seas and sinking land spell hard times for fishers

Tonggo Simangunsong 16 Aug 2022

Saving Sumatran elephants starts with counting them. Indonesia won’t say how many are left

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 8 Aug 2022

Study casts doubt on sustainability of regulated blood python snakeskin trade

Basten Gokkon 2 Jun 2022
A long-tailed macaque in Gunung Leuser National Park. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Probe finds palm oil firm illegally clearing forest in Sumatra wildlife haven

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Mar 2022

In a national park plagued by encroachers, Indonesia tries a new approach

Tonggo Simangunsong 9 Mar 2022

Indonesian program’s promise of food security backfires for local farmers

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Mar 2022

you're currently offline