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 […]
JAMBI, Indonesia Rahmad Saleh Simbolon, who died of a heart attack on Aug. 9 at age 47, is remembered by both civil society and government officers as a dedicated and effective environmental leader in Sumatra, particularly for his work safeguarding one of the island’s largest elephant populations. “Rahmad Saleh was a conservation fighter,” said […]