In the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order halting foreign aid, severely imperiled species — and the people protecting ...

LANGKAT, Indonesia — A critically endangered Sumatran elephant was found dead April 4 on the border of the Gunung Leuser National Park in Sumatra’s Langkat district, officials said.

Dead specimens were recorded in Sumatra in 1915 ... The skink was rediscovered in Gunung Leuser National Park, a world heritage site and biosphere reserve, according to the study.

On 26 December 2004 at 07:59 local time, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra ... and the rainforests of Gunung Leuser National Park – one of the last places on ...

Rakus, who is thought to be around 35 years old, lives in the Gunung Leuser National Park in Sumatra and has been the subject of observational research for years. He used the chewed-up leaves of ...

The region encompasses Sumatra’s largest intact rain forest ... About one-third of the Leuser Ecosystem is protected as the Gunung Leuser National Park. The rest is either forest land with ...

In June 2022, researchers observed the ape named Rakus that sustained the facial wound at the Suaq Balimbing research site in Gunung Leuser National Park. Three days later, they saw him chew on ...

The present research observations were conducted in the Suaq Balimbing area within Gunung Leuser National Park, South Aceh, Indonesia. The subject of this study, a male Sumatran orangutan named ...

A facial wound on Rakus, a wild male Sumatran orangutan in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, two days before he applied chewed leaves from a medicinal plant, left, and two months later when ...

At Gunung Leuser National Park, a rainforest reserve on the western Indonesian island of Sumatra, scientists heard from the treetops a series of “long calls,” a behavior that usually preempts ...

An orangutan in Indonesia has been observed appearing to treat a wound with a medicinal tropical plant – the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies ...