SAROLANGUN, Indonesia On a night in early July, Solikin was awake chasing elephants past sunrise. The animals had entered the community’s oil palm fields and raised hell, mashing hundreds of young palm stems to a pulp. “What are we farmers supposed to do?” Solikin told Mongabay Indonesia a week later as he surveyed the […]
JAKARTA A decade of protection and natural regeneration of tropical forests has helped bird populations increase in the southern lowlands of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, but continued wild trapping by poachers is preventing a speedier recovery, a new study shows. Wild populations of birds at the Harapan flagship tropical forest restoration site increased over the […]
Under President Joko Widodo, Indonesia has gained international praise for its conservation policies. But now the government is clamping down on scientists who are questioning official claims that the country’s endangered orangutan and rhino populations are increasing.
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