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Politician’s son named a suspect over illegal land clearing in Leuser Ecosystem

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Jan 2017

Palm oil culprits apprehended in the Leuser Ecosystem. Who sent them?

Junaidi Hanafiah 23 Nov 2016

North Sumatra’s governor wants to build a road through Mt. Leuser National Park

Ayat S. Karokaro 31 Oct 2016

Fires driving deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Mongabay.com 29 Sep 2016

Indonesian environment ministry shoots down geothermal plan in Mount Leuser National Park

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 12 Sep 2016

Aceh governor eyes geothermal project in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Aug 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Hundreds sickened in Indonesia’s Aceh as peat fires burn

Junaidi Hanafiah 9 Aug 2016

NGO sues Aceh official over cement factory permit in Leuser Ecosystem

Junaidi Hanafiah 4 Aug 2016

Judges up the ante for tiger traffickers in Indonesia

Chik Rini, Dedek Hendry 24 Jun 2016

A decade in the making: EU, Indonesia to start licensing scheme for legal timber shipments

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2016

Palm oil, mining moratorium declared in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2016

DiCaprio won’t be deported over palm oil comments: Indonesian minister

Mongabay.com 4 Apr 2016

Baby orangutan poachers get 2.5 years in Sumatra

Rahmadi Rahmad 25 Mar 2016

Tiger skins, bones recovered from poachers in Aceh

Junaidi Hanafiah 24 Mar 2016

Indonesia hustles to preempt new round of haze-causing fires

Mongabay Haze Beat 18 Mar 2016

Despite population revision, Sumatran orangutans still ‘on the road to extinction’

Mongabay.com 11 Mar 2016

Aceh citizens ask governor to keep bulldozers out of a crucial rainforest

Junaidi Hanafiah 12 Feb 2016

Aceh citizens sue government to save Leuser Ecosystem

Cory Rogers 22 Jan 2016

Palm oil expands in Aceh

Junaidi Hanafiah 12 Jan 2016

Aceh official takes chainsaw to illegal oil palm trees

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Dec 2015
These baby orangutans were confiscated from a trafficker in Indonesia's Aceh province in 2015. Photo by Junaidi Hanafiah.

First-ever conviction for orangutan trafficking in Aceh

Chik Rini 23 Nov 2015
Sumatran tiger

Aceh’s priceless Leuser Ecosystem still shrinking as oil palm spreads

Cory Rogers 17 Nov 2015

After the tsunami, a forest restored along a river in Aceh

Chik Rini 13 Oct 2015
Two Global Forest Watch images showing near-term (left) and long-term (right) change in forest cover inside PT. Tualang Raya's concession.

Palm oil company caught destroying primary forest in endangered ecosystem

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Oct 2015

Aceh citizens threaten lawsuit over spatial plan

Mongabay.com 12 Oct 2015

Rogue oil palm company must pay $26m, rules Indonesia’s Supreme Court

Chik Rini, Indra Nugraha 14 Sep 2015

Man selling baby orangutans on Facebook arrested in Sumatra

Junaidi Hanafiah 6 Aug 2015

Indonesian kingpin of illegal wildlife trade gets two years in prison

Mongabay.com 13 Jul 2015

Illegal forest clearing spotted in Aceh’s biggest peat swamp

26 Jun 2015

Wilmar, Musim Mas supplier caught clearing elephant habitat for palm oil in Aceh

Mongabay.com 12 May 2015

Orangutan rescued amid sea of palm oil

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 May 2015

Leuser Park authorities still trying to move thousands of squatters

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2015

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