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comparing tropical rainforest with rubber and oil palm plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia. The researchers set out to study both biodiversity—plants, insects, vertebrates—and changes in how ...

The Leuser Ecosystem in northern Sumatra is the largest remaining intact swath of tropical rainforest in Sumatra. Image courtesy of Global Forest Watch. A road cutting through Gunung Leuser ...

Orangutans that live in Sumatra usually make their nests in palm forests. But one day in 2014, Panut Hadisiswoyo caught sight of an orangutan riding around the streets of Medan, the island’s ...

New data from a non-profit reveals that humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover - raising alarm that a key natural buffer against ...