1 - Establishment of the World Heritage List in Danger (Inscribed Properties) 2011 35COM 7B.16 - Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (Indonesia) (N 1167) 2010 34COM 7B.14 - Tropical Rainforest ...

The designated area for rainforest restoration stretches along the border between the Jambi and South Sumatra provinces in Indonesia. Three years ago the story began, when the initiative was taken up ...

The Leuser Ecosystem is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Sumatra and one of the largest single continuous blocks of tropical rainforest left in the whole of south-east Asia. It is also ...

From his perch high in the rain forest canopy of Sumatra, a big male orangutan known as Sitogos jumps to the trunk of a dead tree and, using all his 200 pounds, rocks it back and forth until it ...

The past 12 months have seen animals of all shapes, sizes and colours strut their stuff – here are just a few of the best pictures from the year ...

The Sumatran rainforests of Indonesia are home ... In the last decades, millions of hectares of rainforest have been cleared in Indonesia, in what some studies call the world's fastest rate ...

Sumatran orangutans are frugivores ... the primates used to reside across the island but are now limited to rainforest areas on the north side. In Indonesia, forests are often destroyed and ...

The island covers approximately 303,000 square miles. The Sundaland rainforest, encompassing the Malay Peninsula and the islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo in Southeast Asia, covers 197,000 ...

There are many causes of rainforest deforestation ... The Orang Rimba people live in the Sumatran rainforests of Indonesia. The Indonesian government does not recognise their right to the land ...