Welcome to jungle school—where orphaned orangutans are learning the basics for survival that they will need for life in the ...

A four-and-half-year-old orangutan has today been released into the wild in Indonesia. Rere was set free from a cage at the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program (SOCP) Reintroduction and Quarantine ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A Sumatran tiger captured by camera trap. Photo credit: WWF-KemenLHK. “[Cats] play a significant role ecologically as predators,” Sunarto Surnato, ...

Straddling the equator, Sumatra is the sixth largest island in the world – 172 Hong Kongs could fit inside it. A biologically diverse region of awe-inspiring landscapes, its natural beauty seduces ...

The flat-headed cat, no larger than the domestic housecat, is one of the most endangered and elusive species of cats native to Sumatra. But the shy feline was caught on film by camera traps within the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sumatra is the only place on earth where orangutans, tigers, elephants and rhinoceroses are found together. But it may not be so for ...

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SIKALADI, Indonesia: The residents of the otherwise quiet town of Sikaladi woke up one February morning to the buzzing chatter of more than a hundred men and the constant barking of their four-legged ...

Mon, February 9, 2015 Published on Feb. 9, 2015 Published on 2015-02-09T14:04:06+07:00 he West Sumatra provincial administration plans to promote the tourism potential of wild boar hunting in an ...

An orangutan swings through the trees at a tourist-oriented facility in Bukit Lawang, outside of Medan. Wild orangutans are found in just two places on the globe: the Indonesian island of Sumatra in ...