Leuser Ecosystem News Today

Since the turn of the century there has been a consistent average annual loss of 3 to 4 million hectares or 74 to 99 million acres of tropical forest globally

Despite corporate commitments, deforestation rates remain high, and community land conflicts continue.

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Sunda clouded leopards spend most of their lives in the leafy shade of the forest canopy. Equipped with exquisite camouflage, superb climbing skills and outsize canines, they’re formidable arboreal predators. But amid a development boom, the big cats’ uncompromising dependence on forest cover could prove a fatal weakness. A new study indicates that a slew […]

JAKARTA — Fires razed nearly 1 million hectares (2.47 million acres) of lands and forests in Indonesia in 2023, as the country suffered from unusually scorching weather due to El Niño and burning for new plantations. Data from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry show that as many as 994,313.18 hectares — an area 15 […]

Three decades of radical roots conservationism culminates in a sensational summit.

Were protecting and regenerating nature to help combat climate change Published: 4 December 2023 ...

A nationally protected wildlife reserve in Indonesia is under attack by popular, big-name brands.

JAKARTA — A palm oil company in Indonesia has finally started paying off a $23 million fine for burning an important Sumatran orangutan habitat more than a decade ago, highlighting the difficulty of holding environmental violators to account in the country. PT Kallista Alam (KA) was in 2013 found liable by a court in Aceh […]

A proposed gold mine threatens the Leuser Ecosystem and with it tigers, elephants, rhinos and orangutans. Please support the environmentalists on Sumatra.