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Researchers document a rare night bloom of Rafflesia hasseltii deep inside a tiger-patrolled Sumatran rainforest.

After a herd of endangered Sumatran elephants were killed, as well as continuing clashes between elephants and residents in central Sumatra, the Indonesian Forest Protection and Nature Conservation ...

The Harapan forest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra is teeming with frog species, one of which was just described last year. These amphibians are threatened by a coal-trucking road that the ...

One of the last places on Earth where Sumatran elephants, tigers and orangutans coexist in the wild has received long-term protection. The Indonesian Ministry of Forestry approved a conservation ...

Most violent incidents between people and tigers in Sumatra’s Riau Province in the past 12 years have occurred near forests being cleared by paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and associated ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small ...

This image shows a well-preserved, natural peat swamp forest in Sumatra, Indonesia. In the SaLtedPeat Project ("Potential impact of sea level rise related salinization on lowland tropical coastal ...

Adopted; see page https://whc.unesco.org/en/decisions/5970 Revised, see page https://whc.unesco.org/en/decisions/7213 February-March 2006: joint UNESCO/IUCN Reactive ...

Police have arrested a North Sumatra resident for allegedly causing a forest fire in Rokan Hilir regency in Riau. The forest ...

Mycorrhizal infection was studied in mixed samples from rain-forest roots in relation to soil fertility (pH(KCl), total P and P-Al), vegetation structure and litterfall in a rain forest reserve on ...

A 54-year-old woman working on a rubber plantation was reportedly swallowed whole on Sunday by a 22-foot python. The Washington Post reported that when she did not return home after work her family ...