Junaidi Hanafiah

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Sumatran tigers are critically endangered.

Snared, skinned, sold: Brutal March for Indonesia’s Sumatran tigers

Junaidi Hanafiah, Rahmi Carolina, Vinolia 10 Apr 2025
The bone of an elephant that died from electric shock in Karang Ampar.

As human-elephant conflicts in Sumatra rise, so does risk from electric fences

Junaidi Hanafiah 29 Jul 2024
Bamboo rafting is an activity along the Kala Meriah River while enjoying the beauty of nature.

In Indonesia’s Aceh, a once-isolated forest hosts local travelers on bamboo rafts

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Jun 2024

Indonesia remembers Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, rare policymaker who stood for nature

Junaidi Hanafiah, Richardo Hariandja 22 Dec 2023

Indonesian official charged, but not jailed, for trading in Sumatran tiger parts

Junaidi Hanafiah 7 Jun 2022

More coffee, less gold: Sumatra farmers alarmed over revival of mine project

Junaidi Hanafiah 24 Feb 2022

In Sumatra, a snare trap costs a baby elephant her trunk, then her life

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Nov 2021

As tigers dwindle, Indonesia takes aim at poaching ring

Junaidi Hanafiah 27 Sep 2021

Mother tiger and her cubs found dead in Sumatran forest

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Aug 2021

Development of third Sumatran rhino sanctuary advances to save species

Junaidi Hanafiah 25 Jun 2021

Never too late to save Earth: Q&A with Leuser forest guardian Rudi Putra

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Jun 2021

Snare traps decline, but still pose a threat to Leuser’s Sumatran rhinos

Junaidi Hanafiah 13 Nov 2020

Planned road projects threaten Sumatran rhino habitat, experts say

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Oct 2020

Poaching in Indonesia’s biodiverse Leuser Ecosystem on the rise amid COVID-19

Junaidi Hanafiah 28 May 2020

A new sanctuary for the Sumatran rhino is delayed amid COVID-19 measures

Junaidi Hanafiah 27 May 2020

Road project in economically deprived Indonesian region threatens wildlife habitat

Junaidi Hanafiah 1 Apr 2020

Indonesian officials wield sharia law in defense of Sumatran rhinos

Junaidi Hanafiah, Rahmadi Rahmad 10 Jan 2020

Coal spill bedevils Indonesian beach more than a year later

Junaidi Hanafiah 22 Nov 2019

Sumatra survey looks to identify at-risk rhinos for captive breeding

Junaidi Hanafiah 4 Oct 2019

Restoring Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, one small farm at a time

Junaidi Hanafiah 30 Sep 2019

Indonesian court cancels dam project in last stronghold of tigers, rhinos

Junaidi Hanafiah 2 Sep 2019

Indonesia rescues captive orangutans, but leaves their owners untouched

Ayat S. Karokaro, Junaidi Hanafiah 8 Feb 2019

Indonesia’s Aceh sees harshest penalty yet for a wildlife crime

Junaidi Hanafiah 22 Oct 2018

Indonesia demands cleanup after coal spill pollutes beach

Junaidi Hanafiah 6 Aug 2018

Poachers blamed in second Sumatran elephant death this year

Junaidi Hanafiah 11 Jun 2018
Sumatran tiger

Deforestation wanes in Indonesia’s Aceh and Leuser Ecosystem, but threats remain, NGO says

Hans Nicholas Jong, Junaidi Hanafiah 5 Feb 2018

Indonesia’s Aceh extends moratorium on new mining sites

Junaidi Hanafiah 12 Jan 2018

Locals fear for their lives over planned dam in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Junaidi Hanafiah 14 Dec 2017

Mining project in Leuser Ecosystem no longer has a valid permit

Hans Nicholas Jong, Junaidi Hanafiah 29 Sep 2017
Critically endangered Sumatran Rhino

Sumatran rhino horn, pangolin parts seized in Aceh wildlife trafficking bust

Junaidi Hanafiah 27 Jul 2017

As Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem faces multiple threats, local resistance grows

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Jul 2017

Aceh governor-elect: ‘I myself will cancel’ controversial geothermal project in Sumatran rainforest

Junaidi Hanafiah 11 Mar 2017

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