In research supported by the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, BRIN researchers confirmed that no Rafflesia genetic material had left Indonesia.

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 ...

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Indonesian authorities were accelerating efforts to tackle forest and land fires, particularly in Riau province and other regions across Sumatra Island in the country's western territories. According ...

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

The Pangkalan Kapas forest on the eastern coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island is important both to local communities and to the endangered wildlife of a nearby nature reserve. But it faces what ...

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 ...

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 ...