DENPASAR, Indonesia--Jangat Pico, a member of the Orang Rimba indigenous people who live on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, was reluctant to say the name of the new coronavirus when he heard it for ...

Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom has welcomed a new four-month-old tiger cub. The Sumatran tiger cub, Bakso, made his grand ...

The current poaching is jeopardizing the survival of entire populations, and indeed the very future of tigers on Sumatra---a tragic loss for the world, and for the very heritage of the people of ...

Just two of the remaining herds are considered biologically viable. As a result of the rapid development and deforestation in Sumatra, elephants often come into contact with human settlements. They ...

Massive rivers cut across the landscape. These are the islands’ lifelines, offering transport and providing the freshwater needs for the islands’ people. Amidst a sea of oil palm plantations and ...

Hard hit by Indonesia’s socio-economic and environmental challenges, the existence of the Sumatran tiger is under threat from rapidly expanding deforestation and forest degradation. The Island’s ...

Most conservation groups agree that without drastic intervention, the Sumatran tiger is likely to be completely extinct in the wild within one to two decades. It’s a fate that Giles and his team ...