Since it was first described by scientists in 2017, the Tapanuli orangutan, one of the world’s rarest great apes, was ...

The photography project illustrates what collaborative partnerships accomplish for wildlife. Researchers make surprising ...

The 15,300-hectare (37,900-acre) Balai Raja Wildlife Reserve in Sumatra’s Riau province was established in 1986 and designated an elephant reserve in 1992. By 2010, less than 200 hectares of intact ...

A research team from the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) recently identified several Tapanuli orangutans in a peat forest ...

The Harapan forest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra is teeming with frog species, one of which was just described last year. These amphibians are threatened by a coal-trucking road that the ...

One of the last places on Earth where Sumatran elephants, tigers and orangutans coexist in the wild has received long-term protection. The Indonesian Ministry of Forestry approved a conservation ...

Indonesian authorities were accelerating efforts to tackle forest and land fires, particularly in Riau province and other regions across Sumatra Island in the country's western territories. According ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small ...

Most violent incidents between people and tigers in Sumatra’s Riau Province in the past 12 years have occurred near forests being cleared by paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and associated ...

Barcelona, Spain – The Indonesian government and WWF today announced a bold commitment to protect the remaining forests and critical ecosystems of Sumatra, an Indonesian island that holds some of the ...

A 54-year-old woman working on a rubber plantation was reportedly swallowed whole on Sunday by a 22-foot python. The Washington Post reported that when she did not return home after work her family ...

MEDAN: For the first time, scientists have confirmed the presence of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo ...