Aerial photograph, taken by a drone, of the Karo-Langkat road that bisects the North Sumatra province section of Gunung Leuser National Park. Image courtesy of Gunung Leuser National Park authority.

The 2.5 million hectare Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra site comprises three national parks: Gunung Leuser National Park, Kerinci Seblat National Park and Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park.

Bukit Lawang has a prime location adjacent to Gunung Leuser National Park, one of the last remaining habitats of the Sumatran Orangutan. It started back in 1973 when two Swiss environmentalists ...

Tualang Gepang is a small village in Indonesia’s North Sumatra, nestled amongst local palm oil and rubber plantations. In the near distance sleeps the Gunung Leuser National Park, a world ...

Straddling the equator, Sumatra is the sixth largest island ... waves that reverberate for thousands of miles. National parks such as Gunung Leuser are recognised for their abundant and varied ...

TRHS was designated as the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (TRHS) in 2004. TRHS is part of the Bukit Barisan Mountain range, which consists of three national parks: Gunung Leuser National Park ...

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 ...

She says she was "very excited" about the orangutan's seeming innovation, which was documented at the Suaq Balimbing research site in the Gunung Leuser National Park in northwest Sumatra ...

he village of Tangkahan, perched on the border of Gunung Leuser National Park in Langkat regency, North Sumatra, is a rare conservation success story. Before tourists began to flock to the park ...