UNCOVERED: Sumatra - The Untold Story

Baby orangutans found in forest in India spark trafficking investigation

Native only to the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, the rare apes were found thousands of kilometres away in Odisha state

The Guardian - AU · Sep 10

Flights halted as Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano eruption sends ash cloud 15km into sky

Anak Krakatau volcano eruption prompts cancellation of all flights at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport

The Independent UK · Sep 6

Flights suspended at Indonesia's main airport due to volcanic eruption

Mount Anak Krakatoa is an active volcano that sits in the Sunda Strait, between the islands of Java and Sumatra.

Euronews · Sep 6

Another strong earthquake strikes Indonesia after 7.7 magnitude quake

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck northern Sumatra in Indonesia on Saturday, hours after at least 38 people were killed when a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia, according to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ).

The Times of India · Aug 15

Indonesia ramps up firefighting efforts as Bromo wildfire sparks new hotspots

Forestry ministry says dry weather and intensifying El Nino conditions heighten risk of further fires during peak dry season

The Independent UK · Aug 10

India's Most Secretive Feline: What Science Has Actually Documented About the Clouded Leopard

A Cat That Rewrote the Anatomy of ClimbingThe clouded leopard's canine teeth are the longest, relative to skull size, of any living cat on earth. That single biological fact has been confirmed, measured, and published, and it is one of the few things about this animal that science can state…

Times Life · Aug 10

Multiple threats endanger the world’s rarest great ape, a new study on the Tapanuli orangutan reveals

Deep in the forests of North Sumatra, Indonesia, lives the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis), the world’s rarest great ape. Fewer than 800 individuals remain, confined to the Batang Toru ecosystem, a landscape that is also home to other rare species like Sumatran tigers, Sunda pangolins, agile gibbons and helmeted hornbills.

The Conversation · Aug 4

World's Rarest Orangutans Pushed Closer to Extinction As 58 Were Killed After Four Days of Extreme Rain

Severe rainfall in North Sumatra killed 58 rare orangutans, raising alarm over the survival of this critically endangered population amid climate risks.

International Business Times UK · Jun 12

Climate change-fuelled storm 'decimated world's rarest great apes'

JAKARTA - Climate change-fuelled landslides wiped out nearly one in ten of the world's rarest great ape species on Indonesia's Sumatra island, scientists said on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post · Jun 11

How this Indonesian island was created by a volcano that destroyed itself

The year 1883 saw one of the deadliest eruptions in the history of volcanoes, erupting from the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa (or sometimes referred to as Krakatau). The location was the Sunda Strait that lies between the islands of Java and Sumatra. The power of the eruption was so devastating that…

The Times of India · May 19