1 - Establishment of the World Heritage List in Danger (Inscribed Properties) 2011 35COM 7B.16 - Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (Indonesia) (N 1167) 2010 34COM 7B.14 - Tropical Rainforest ...

Nearly 200,000 people have signed a petition calling on U.K. multinational Jardine Matheson to cancel its plan to expand ...

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Both Sumatra and Kalimantan have long ... land-clearing activities have shifted to eastern Indonesia, which still has large swaths of intact rainforests. Yet Kalimantan accounted for nearly ...

Since 1950, more than 285,700 square miles of Indonesian rainforest — an area twice ... After the deadly floods in Sumatra in early March, West Sumatra Gov. Mahyeldi Ansharullah said there ...

The “people of the forest” won’t live in the wild much longer if we keep chopping down their rainforest homes.

Two major exporters of palm kernel to New Zealand have been found to source kernel from illegal operations in Indonesia's ...

The designated area for rainforest restoration stretches along the border between the Jambi and South Sumatra provinces in Indonesia. Three years ago the story began, when the initiative was taken up ...

Rafflesia kemumu in the rainforest of Sumatra. Image credit: Chris Thorogood. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

Fishing is important in the Indonesian archipelago, which is made up of more than 17,000 islands, the second-largest of which is Sumatra. Rugged West Sumatra, where rainforest clings to the ...

Fires that destroyed Indonesian rainforests pumped out more carbon ... with the worst-affected areas on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. The destruction was greater than usual due to a prolonged ...