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Two suspected poachers arrested for killing of Sumatran elephant

Mongabay.com 5 Jul 2018

Poachers blamed in second Sumatran elephant death this year

Junaidi Hanafiah 11 Jun 2018

Mining project in Leuser Ecosystem no longer has a valid permit

Hans Nicholas Jong, Junaidi Hanafiah 29 Sep 2017

Oil palm firms advance into Leuser rainforest, defying Aceh governor’s orders

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Sep 2017
Sumatran elephants by Rhett Butler.

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

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Jul 2017

Local NGOs: Ecosystem services, not orangutans, key to saving Leuser

Colleen Kimmett 4 Jan 2017

Is that palm oil mill “sustainable”? A new tool can tell

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Jun 2016

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

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2016

DiCaprio endorses petition to save Sumatra’s last great rainforest

Mongabay.com 7 Apr 2016

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

Mongabay.com 4 Apr 2016

Leonardo DiCaprio poses with elephants in Indonesia’s embattled Leuser rainforest

Mongabay.com 29 Mar 2016

Malaysian palm oil giant IOI suspended from RSPO

Mongabay.com 25 Mar 2016

Tiger skins, bones recovered from poachers in Aceh

Junaidi Hanafiah 24 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
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

‘Blue Sky Revolution’ in Pekanbaru as haze protesters demand brighter days ahead

Mongabay Haze Beat 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

Govt asked to guard Aceh wildlife corridor’s slow recovery

Chik Rini 29 Jul 2015

Indonesian kingpin of illegal wildlife trade gets two years in prison

Mongabay.com 13 Jul 2015

Wilmar, Musim Mas supplier still destroying forest for oil palm in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2015

Illegal forest clearing spotted in Aceh’s biggest peat swamp

26 Jun 2015

In Sumatra, an oasis in a sea of oil palm

Quino Alonso 8 Jun 2015

In Aceh, an illegal logger reformed

Junaidi Hanafiah 5 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

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