Leuser Ecosystem News

In a national park plagued by encroachers, Indonesia tries a new approach

Tonggo Simangunsong 9 Mar 2022

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

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

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

Aceh citizens threaten lawsuit over spatial plan

Mongabay.com 12 Oct 2015

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