WRI Indonesia helped secure “mukim customary forest” designations for more than 22,000 hectares of land, establishing legal land rights for more than 50,000 people from Indigenous and local communities.
At almost 1.4 million hectares (3.4 million acres), a little smaller than the U.S. state of Connecticut, Kerinci Seblat National Park is the second-largest park in Indonesia, and a jewel of the island of Sumatra. It’s also home to the largest tiger population left in the country. But Kerinci Seblat continues to lose forest to […]
The Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary, located in Way Kambas National Park, celebrated the birth of a healthy male calf, on Saturday. The baby calf, which weighs 55 pounds, is the first for the rhino couple, Harapan and Delilah, the former of whom was born at the Cincinnati Zoo. Delilah had surprised sanctuary workers by giving birth […]